CSV doesn't use backslash escaping.
http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm

"This is text with a ""quoted"" string"

-Yonik

On Jan 2, 2008 8:21 AM, Michael Lackhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use UpdateCSV to feed my data into SOLR and it works very well. The
> only thing I don't understand is how to properly escape the encapsulator
> and the backslash.
> An example with the default encapsulator ("):
> "This is a text with a \"quote\""
> "This gives one \ backslash"
> "This gives two backslashes before the \\\"quote\""
> "This gives an error \\"quote\""
>
> So what if I want only one backslash before the quote, e.g. the
> unescaped data looks like this:
> Text with \"funny characters
> (a real backslash before a real quote not an escaped quote)
>
> I know this isn't common and perhaps it would be possible to find an
> encapsulator that will be very, very unlikely to be found in the data
> but you can never be sure.
> So is there a way to correctly escape or otherwise encode all possible
> combinations of special characters?
>
> -Michael
>
>

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