Re: COPY formatting

I deal with this daily in a cygwin environment.  I wrote a simple c++
program where I hardcoded the input file name/location and output file
name/location.  I strip the quotation marks out where they are used for
identifying text fields and change the comma's used as CSV's to pipes.

I use a combination of bash scripting to execute the c++ program and
then Perl to execute a stored procedure.  I am new to Perl so I have not
yet considered migrating it all into Perl.

The dos2unix tools in cygwin always messed up the first character of the
first line.

I thought the real issue with the copy function and CSVs was that it did
not like the use of quotations around the fields to identify text
fields.

For a true Windows port handling MS Excel files in their native format
would be a goal I would hope. If your api could handle that then I would
agree with your method.



On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 22:14, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> > That is why I suggested providing a pre-written/pre-compiled/installed
> > function for CSV (call it CSV?).  Advanced users could still write
> > their own as people can write many other things if they know their ways.
> >
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> As someone who just went through a whole truckload of crap getting
> delimited files parsed from MSSQL to PostgreSQL. I believe yes this
> would be  great thing. We ended up using plPython with the CSV module.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua Drake
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