note 40553 deleted from function.fgetcsv by irchtml

From: Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 10:52:15 +0000
Subject: note 40553 deleted from function.fgetcsv by irchtml
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Note Submitter: Gregory Wood ---- The function submitted by bu at orbitel dot bg won't work if any csv field contains one or more line-breaks (actually, it doesn't seem to work even without those). In fact, any approach that assumes that a line-break can only occur at the end of a record will fail. This is because it is perfectly valid for a line break to appear within a csv field. No doubt this condition is what slows the function down as it _does_ parse this correctly. If you want to experiment for yourself, you can create a multi-line field in Excel by pressing Alt-Enter in the field. When you save that spreadsheet as a csv file, the line will contain line-breaks, but the field will be be wrapped by double quotes. For example, this is a two record valid csv file: 1,Test,"This is a multiline" 2,Another test,"This is also a multiline" Ironically enough, OpenOffice avoids this problem altogether by translating line-breaks into spaces (bad OpenOffice!).

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