Re: Using a csv file with embedded CR/LF

[BMay@xxxxxxxxx]

I say roll your own.  Scott Klement's site has lots of info on reading and 
writing stream files.  Use those examples and write your own parsing 
program.  You will get exactly what you want and have much more control 
over the process.

My $.02,

Brian May
Project Lead
Management Information Systems
Garan, Incorporated
Starkville, Mississippi

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Using a csv file with embedded CR/LF






I have to load a csv file I am getting from a 3rd party into an iSeries 
database. The csv file files are correctly comma separated and 
double-quoted but in one large text string there can be embedded carriage 
return/line feeds and the same is used to end the record. The large text 
string is within double quotes but CPYFRMSTMF still sees the CR/LF within 
the double quotes and takes that as the end of record which results in one 
record in the csv file becoming multiple records in the file that is used 
in the TOMBR parameter in the CPYFRMSTMF. None of the options for 
ENDLINFMT appear to work.  Is there some trick to getting CPYFRMSTMF to do 
what I need? I do need the embedded CR/LF characters included in the 
database field so the text appears correctly when it is displayed on a web 
page. Will I need to read the csv file and do my own parsing of the data 
to split out each field as needed?