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cesar_bolanos
New Contributor
7 years ago

Handling Oracle non-standard CSV exports

We have worked on several projects where Oracle DBAs create direct table extracts using standard Oracle tools. Those tools do not generated properly escaped CSV files. As such, lines like

“123”,"quote",“test”
“345”,“Mc"Donalds”,“test2”

Cause Snaplogic’s CSV parser to reject those lines

Does anyone have any recommendations on how to deal with this type of file?

Thanks

PS We even have a case in which a database column has JSON text, which compounds the non-escaped values even further

5 Replies

  • Ravi's avatar
    Ravi
    New Contributor
    6 years ago

    Hi Cesar,
    we are facing similar issue inclusing additional non english characters parsing. Do you have any solution found for this. TIA.

    • alchemiz's avatar
      alchemiz
      Contributor III
      6 years ago

      Hi, I did encounter this unlikely double quotes before so what I did was do a cleanup of those characters using a mapper with binary input… first replace all " with " to escape that character then replace the double-quotes with the regular one 😆

      • Ravi's avatar
        Ravi
        New Contributor
        6 years ago

        Hi,
        Thanks for reply, will this resolve issue with only double quotes or also non english characters are mapped in transformation. (if possible can you include the formula used in transformation.)
        can you please tell the reason for including document to binary before csv parser.
        Thank you in advance.