If want to store user created strings in a csv file. Is there a preferred library to use for Escaping the string or should I write my own function?
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I suggest you use one of the libraries recommended by the post(s) here. While it may seem easy to write your own CSV creator/parser, you are going to run into issues where you need to handle scenarios such as user strings with commas or quotes in them, which can sometimes be quite cumbersome. I used the following libraries and they worked fine:-
limc
2010-07-26 14:05:11
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If you are writing your own implementation , then here is RFC for you reference: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
If your string are not too complicated you can easily develop small function rather than using some library. I have referenced above RFC and created small function for same purpose in one of my projects.
YoK
2010-07-26 14:52:35