[tpm] Exporting Access files to .csv

[Chris Jones]

Thank you!  It works well except I can't get quotes around Text fields.

I am using:
my $csv = Text::CSV->new ( { binary => 1 } )  # should set binary attribute.
                          or die "Cannot use CSV: ".Text::CSV->error_diag ();

$csv->types ([Text::CSV::IV (),
               Text::CSV::IV (),
               Text::CSV::PV (),
               Text::CSV::PV (),
               Text::CSV::PV (),
               Text::CSV::PV (),
               Text::CSV::IV (),
               Text::CSV::IV ()]);

#output database results
  while (my @row=$sth->fetchrow_array)
   {
         #my $line = join( ",", @row );
         print "@row\n";
                 my $status = $csv->combine(@row);
                 my $line   = $csv->string();
                 print "$line\n"

         }

The output has quotes around the memo fields but 
the text fields are not quoted?

At 09:21 AM 15/10/2012, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>Hi Chris,
>
>On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:07:39 -0400
>Chris Jones <cj at enersave.ca> wrote:
>
> > Thank you.
> >
> > I have written a perl script using DBI ADO.  The
> > select and print statements work.  I am using the
> > join statement to separate the fields by ',' but
> > I can't figure out a way to get the text fields
> > quoted so the output resembles the CSV output by msaccess.
> >
> > Example output from access:
> > 240,10,"SPACE:LGT-W/A[1]","if( Local( ZONE-TYPE )
> > == 1 then 1 endif","Set lighting power","8.4.4.6","db 2012-04-19 -
> > added",1,0
> >
> > The field types:
> > number, number, text, memo, text, text, memo, integer, integer.
> >
> > The output from my script:
> >
> > 240,10,SPACE:LGT-W/A[1],if( Local( ZONE-TYPE ) ==
> > 1 then 1 endif,Set lighting power,8.4.4.6,db 2012-04-19 - added,1,0
> >
> > Thanks for any insight!
>
>Please use https://metacpan.org/module/Text::CSV to output CSV (as well
>as read it). Read its documentation for configurations options that control
>the resultant output.
>
>Regards,
>
>         Shlomi Fish
>
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