Re: Import fails on single quote.

I got "email delivery failed" so replying again.
Did you try changing the escape field ? It is by default a single quote.
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On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:14 AM dsbw <dsbw(at)protonmail(dot)com> wrote:

> OK, it's not as straightforward as an unpaired single quote. I just had
> one fail on:
>
> "PET'1'"
>
> So the single quote is paired, and caused the problem. So I changed it to
> "PET 1"...and the whole import worked. But I got suspicious and started
> looking at the data for single quotes and found things
> like "T'BIRD", "B--CH'N!!" and "JOHN'S WIFE" and those all worked.
>
> So I'm not sure what the deal is.
>
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 at 12:01 PM, dsbw <dsbw(at)protonmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Trying to import data, tab-delimited but unfortunately with quotes around
> string fields anyway. Like:
>
> 1234<tab>"JOHN"<tab>"SMITH"<tab>5678
>
> PGAdmin import fails when the quoted value contains a single quote:
>
> 1234<tab>"EMPLOYEES'"<tab>"CREDIT UNION"<tab>5678
>
> So the trailing quote (for possessive) after "EMPLOYEES" trips it up.
> Seems like, if one is inside a set of double-quotes, any single quotes
> should be ignored? (I know CSV is multiply and contradictorily defined, but
> still.)
>
> ===Blake===
>
>
>

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