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How would you escape properly the delimiter char from actual content when exporting an XLS to CSV?.
When I export a file, the delimiter is ";" character which is also found in some fields. I need to escape it
There is actually no completely accepted standard for the CSV “format”.
Standard practice, however, is:
Enclose any field values with a “special character” in double-quotes.
For any field values that are enclosed in double-quotes, escape any internal double-quote characters in the field by repeating the double-quote character.
So, ID = 10, Name = Doe; John, Nickname = Johnny “The Chin” would look like this:
if you’re using semi-colons (commas are more common, hence the name Comma Separated Values).
Special characters that require the quoting are the delimiter (whatever it is), the double-quote character itself, and line breaks (if both the sending and receiving programs support line breaks within a field). However, if both the sending and receiving programs support the use of double-quotes around field values, it doesn’t hurt to include them for all fields.