Re: copymanager question

swaroop wrote
> one more - i also need to insert useragent strings which have all sorts of
> characters in them eg
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML,
> like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.29 Safari/525.13
>
> Here there is a comma which causes the copy to fail. Other words do not
> have comma in them.
>
> Can you please point me to the correct way to escape this ?
>
> To summarize - how do i replace the input strings in java (data is
> streamed in and i do a copy to postgres)
> so that CSV copy does not fail.
> a. words with comma
> b. words with double quotes in them
> c. words with \ (backslash)

In CSV (comma), strings are to be surrounded with double-quotes.  These are
optional unless the string can contain a comma or double-quote itself.
Inside a double-quoted strong a comma is just a comma.  A double-quote has
to be escapedd but doubling it.  "String ""quote"" , string". Backslash
doesn't do anything special.

David J.




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