I'm creating an CSV file in excel which will be used in an Indesign document.
Is there a way to create an extra line (like you do with alt+enter in excel) in your csv file?
I tried /n, /r, "text", even double ""text""
all of these didn't create an new line in Indesign for me.
Encountered the same issue many moons ago and got around it via the following:
Enter a unique symbol in the CSV where you want the line break to appear
Data Merge
Then Edit - Find/Change
Enter the unique symbol in the find field
Enter end of paragraph symbol (^p) in replace field
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I am trying to figure out why MYSQL isn't working as expected.
I imported my data from a CSV into a table called Products, which is shown in the screenshot. It's a small table of just ID and Name.
But when I run the where clause, finding out where the Name = 'SMS', it returns nothing? I don't understand what the issue is.
My CSV contents in Notepad++ is shown below:
This is what I used to load in my CSV, if there are any errors here.
Could you share your csv file content?
It's happened to me too before, and the problem is because there's some blank space in the data in csv file.
So maybe you could parse first your csv file data (remove the "not needed" blank space) before import it to database
This is often caused by spaces or look-alike characters. If caused by spaces or invisible characters at the beginning/end, you can try:
where name like '%SMS%'
You can then make this more general:
where name like '%S%M%S%'
When you get a match, you'll need to do more investigate to find the actual cause.
I am trying to load the following simple csv file into tableau public 9.3:
customers,item1,item2,item3,item4
1,0,0,0,0
2,0,0,0,0
3,0,0,0,0
However, it doesn't read the file as separate columns, despite the field separator being Comma. Instead it treats the whole line as one column. Any help would be greatly appreciated :
If you change your locale settings to English US you will be able to load the file. You should also be able to work around this by creating a schema.ini file.
Go to Data > Manage fields > [Field] Options
You can also control imported CSV behavior post import both by splitting individual columns (which will remain split on update as well), or by the image below at the CSV level.
That doesn`t work for me. So I reopen the .csv file in Excel and save it again in .csv format with ',' as the delimeter.
After that my file looks like .csv with ';' delimeter and works with Tableau.
I am importing some thousands lines of Data from a .txt file containing two columns and the format is as it follows:
A8041550408#=86^:|blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla1
blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla2
blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla3
A8041550408#=86^:|blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla1
blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla2
A8041550408#=86^:|blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla1
blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla2
blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla3
blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla4
etc....
What I have done so far is create a table with the two fields, but when i try to import the .txt file as a CSV and putting / Columns separated By : | /, I get an error:
"Invalid column count in CSV input on line 2."
Which is quite obvious since the second line of the .txt file is empty.
Moreover, I have tried importing the file as a CSV using LOAD DATA, and it didn't work as well it has just filled up the table with random words and phrases from the .txt file .
So my question is : How can I import the data from this file ?
You have to fix your file; in its current state you cannot expect the import module to be able to understand it. First step would be to remove the empty lines: How to remove blank lines from a Unix file
I have a semicolon-separated csv file over here, and I would like to be able to look at it with gnumeric. Sadly, gnumeric does not read the semicolon as a separator.
I have tried:
appending sep=; on the first line
clicking through the GUI menus
using sed to replace the semicolons with commas (sadly, that leads to breakage, since by document occasionally uses commas within cells
What else can I do?
In recent versions of gnumeric a new Import Data tool is available. To launch the tool choose Data|Import Data|Import Text File... from the menu.
In the Import Data File dialog choose your file and hit Open.
In the next screen select Separated format and click Forward
In the following screen select a separator from a number of available options and click Forward once again to choose the columns to import.
Click Finish to complete.
Solution that worked for me in a comma separated csv file with dot decimal separators:
Open .csv file from a text editor
replace all "," with ";" (semicolon)
replace all dot decimal separators "." with ","
save file
open gnumeric, go to Data -> Get External Data -> Import Text File
and then open the saved file
hit Forward and Finish
save as a gnumeric file
I have a txt file which contains quoted, comma deliminated text, and i am trying to figure out what type of newline is being used.
The reason is because i am trying to import it into mysql server, using local infile, and obviously i need to tell it the correct LINES TERMINATED BY
When i use either \n or \r\n it imports exactly half, of the records only, skipping a line each time.
But when i use \r it imports exactly double, giving me the exact number of rows as all values null, as there are records.
When i open the file in notepad, there is no space in between lines, however, if i open it in a browser, there is a blank line in between each line, as though there is a paragraph there somewhere. Like wise if i choose "open with > Excel" it does not put into columns, and has a blank line between each. The only way to open properly in excel is to use "get external data > From text" and choose comma deliminator.
I provide a couple of lines below exactly by just copying and pasting, and obviously it would be great if someone could let me know the correct settings to use for importing. But i it would be even more great, if there was a way for me to quickly know what type of newline any particular file is using (there is also a blank line at the very end of the file as per the other rows).
"Item No.","Description","Description 2","Customers Price","Home stock","Brand Name","Expected date for delivery","Item Group No.","Item Group Name","Item Product Link (Web)","Item Picture Link (Web)","EAN/UPC","Weight","UNSPSC code","Product type code","Warranty"
"/5PL0006","Drum Unit","DK-23","127.00","32","Kyocera","04/11/2013","800002","Drums","http://uk.product.com/product.aspx?id=%2f5PL0006","http://s.product.eu/products/2_PICTURE-TAKEN.JPG","5711045360824","0.30","44103109","","3M"
"/DK24","DK-24 Drum Unit FS-3750","","119.00","8","Dell","08/11/2013","800002","Drums","http://uk.product.com/product.aspx?id=%2fDK24","http://s.product.eu/products/2_PICTURE-TAKEN.JPG","5711045360718","0.20","44103109","","3M"