On Jul 29, 2:42 am, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: > My credit union mercifully supports CSV export. I was writing a > parser for it when I discovered that they actually allow commas inside > data fields ("Jun. 27, 2011" was in a memo field). That means I have > to increase the IQ of my parser by a larger amount than I want to > hassle with right now. Are most of the banks this brain dead, or am I > just lucky? >
Your bank is far from brain dead. Halfway decent CSV parsers should recognise fields as comma delimited, optionally enclosed in quotes, this being an easy way to include commas in the output.
