(Classic ASP) CSV Enable Quotes

Explains the EnableQuotes property for the CSV class.

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ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

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' The CSV in this example contains this:   test;"123;abc";xyz

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Csv")
set csv = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Csv")

' EnableQuotes is 1 by default, but we'll explicitly set to 1 here:
csv.EnableQuotes = 1
success = csv.LoadFile("qa_data/csv/enableQuotes.csv")

' Show row 0, column 0
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( csv.GetCell(0,0)) & "</pre>"
' Show row 0, column 1
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( csv.GetCell(0,1)) & "</pre>"
' Show row 0, column 2
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( csv.GetCell(0,2)) & "</pre>"

' Output is: 
'  test
'  123;abc
'  xyz

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' Turn off EnableQuotes and see what happens:

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Csv")
set csv2 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Csv")
csv2.EnableQuotes = 0

success = csv2.LoadFile("qa_data/csv/enableQuotes.csv")

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( csv2.GetCell(0,0)) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( csv2.GetCell(0,1)) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( csv2.GetCell(0,2)) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( csv2.GetCell(0,3)) & "</pre>"

' Output is:

'  test
'  "123
'  abc"
'  xyz

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