Question

I export some of my db into a csv using PhpExcel.
Because I have quite some corrupted data, I check them and display the errors when necessary.

So I would like to display in my error message when a field contains my separator (otherwise it would mess with my pagination) :

$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($this->_objErrorPHPExcel, 'CSV');
    $objWriter->setDelimiter('|');
    $objWriter->setEnclosure( '' );
    $objWriter->setUseBOM( true );
    $objWriter->setPreCalculateFormulas( false );
    $objWriter->save( $strOutputFile );
    unset( $objWriter );     

When I save my error message (for an email address like em|[e-mail]) :

$this->$strExcelFileName->getActiveSheet()->setCellValueExplicit('F' . $intRow, $strError );

Instead of saving in my F cell

EMail contains “|” character

I end up

EMail contains

in F, and

|

character in G.

I then have the same problem when I save the email in the spreadsheet, it is cut in 2 cells.

Thanks for your time and advices 🙂

Answer 1

The solution was provided by DaveRandom ! :

Well I’m fairly certain that your problem is going to be related to
$objWriter->setEnclosure( ” ); – you are specifying an empty field
enclosure, which means that there is no way to quote a string that
contains a separator, so obviously it will be viewed as a field
delimiter and not a literal character. I think you need to do
something like $objWriter->setEnclosure( ‘”‘ );