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krupalibshah
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8 years ago

How to edit CSV file to append text at the begining

I have a requirement to be able to generate a CSV file which has “UTF-8” as the starting line and after that it will have headers and then data. Has anyone done this before? Expected output : ...
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krupalibshah
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8 years ago

Thanks a lot!
Works for me.

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krupalibshah
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8 years ago

I am getting the output, but getting an extra new line due to line separate usage.
How to prevent the extra lines from being written.

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    aleung
    Contributor III
    8 years ago

    Could you write a file with just ‘UTF-8’ then perform FILE WRITE with APPEND to achieve what you want?

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      krupalibshah
      Contributor
      8 years ago

      No actually as I have to write the csv file to a zip

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        aleung
        Contributor III
        8 years ago

        seem like you need another python script to perform a prefix “UTF-8\n” to your document.