Visual FoxPro

Read Japanese utf-8 CSV File

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Demonstrates how to read a utf-8 .csv file containing some Japanese characters. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loCsv
LOCAL lnRow
LOCAL n

lnSuccess = 0

*  This example program loads a file (japanese.csv)
*  that contains this content:
*  
*  year,color,country,food
*  2001,red,France,cheese
*  2005,blue,"United States",hamburger
*  2008,green,Italy,pasta
*  1998,orange,Japan,sushi
*  2010,silver,"太志","森田"
*  

loCsv = CreateObject('Chilkat.Csv')

*  Prior to loading the CSV file, indicate that the 1st row
*  should be treated as column names:
loCsv.HasColumnNames = 1

*  Load the CSV records from the file.
*  Important: Make sure to call LoadFile2 so that the charset (utf-8)
*  of the CSV file can be indicated.
lnSuccess = loCsv.LoadFile2("qa_data/csv/japanese.csv","utf-8")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loCsv.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loCsv
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  Display the contents of the 3rd column

n = loCsv.NumRows
FOR lnRow = 0 TO n - 1
    ? loCsv.GetCell(lnRow,2)
NEXT

RELEASE loCsv