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”,"qu...
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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 😆
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.
CSV parser input needs to be a binary
.replace(/"/g,‘\"’). ← replace all " to "
.replace(/“/g,‘"’) ← replace all “ to "
.replace(/”/g,‘"’) ← replace all ” to "Here’s a better version, the first version might fail for large csv files, this version replaces the left and right double quote characters per row
Handling Oracle non-standard CSV exports_2020_06_06.slp (5.1 KB)
non-double-quotes.txt (109 Bytes)
