* [feature-request] make org-quote-csv-field customizable
@ 2017-08-02 10:26 Thomas von Dein
2017-08-03 22:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Thomas von Dein @ 2017-08-02 10:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hello,
currently when exporting a table to CSV, fields are quoted automatically
if they contain a comma or a quote character. The regexp for this
determination is hard-coded in 'org-quote-csv-field.
This is good for most use cases. However, if you want to import such a
CSV with MS Excel then some unquoted fields will be automatically
converted by Excel into another format.
An example is a field containing 192.168.10.233. 'org-quote-csv-field
doesn't quote it, but Excel - for reasons I cannot fathom - considers
this a number (it doesn't do this when the last octet is below 233
though) and converts it to 19216810233 - which is wrong.
I wrote the following code to circumvent this Excel bug:
(defun tvd-org-quote-csv-field (s)
"Quote every field and precede it with = to disable excel automatisms."
(if (string-match "." s)
(concat "=\"" (mapconcat 'identity
(split-string s "\"") "\"\"") "\"")
s))
(defun table-to-excel ()
"export current org table to CSV format suitable for MS Excel."
(interactive)
;; quote everything, map temporarily 'org-quote-csv-field
;; to my version
(cl-letf (((symbol-function 'org-quote-csv-field)
#'tvd-org-quote-csv-field))
(org-table-export "/tmp/ex.csv" "orgtbl-to-csv")))
To make this customizable, it would be good to have a variable which
contains the regex to determine what to quote. A parameter to
org-table-export would be an even better solution.
best regards, and thanks for this great module!
Tom
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread* Re: [feature-request] make org-quote-csv-field customizable
2017-08-02 10:26 [feature-request] make org-quote-csv-field customizable Thomas von Dein
@ 2017-08-03 22:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-08-03 23:19 ` Tim Cross
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Goaziou @ 2017-08-03 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas von Dein; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hello,
Thomas von Dein <tom@vondein.org> writes:
> currently when exporting a table to CSV, fields are quoted automatically
> if they contain a comma or a quote character. The regexp for this
> determination is hard-coded in 'org-quote-csv-field.
>
> This is good for most use cases. However, if you want to import such a
> CSV with MS Excel then some unquoted fields will be automatically
> converted by Excel into another format.
>
> An example is a field containing 192.168.10.233. 'org-quote-csv-field
> doesn't quote it, but Excel - for reasons I cannot fathom - considers
> this a number (it doesn't do this when the last octet is below 233
> though) and converts it to 19216810233 - which is wrong.
>
> I wrote the following code to circumvent this Excel bug:
>
> (defun tvd-org-quote-csv-field (s)
> "Quote every field and precede it with = to disable excel automatisms."
> (if (string-match "." s)
> (concat "=\"" (mapconcat 'identity
> (split-string s "\"") "\"\"") "\"")
> s))
>
> (defun table-to-excel ()
> "export current org table to CSV format suitable for MS Excel."
> (interactive)
> ;; quote everything, map temporarily 'org-quote-csv-field
> ;; to my version
> (cl-letf (((symbol-function 'org-quote-csv-field)
> #'tvd-org-quote-csv-field))
> (org-table-export "/tmp/ex.csv" "orgtbl-to-csv")))
>
> To make this customizable, it would be good to have a variable which
> contains the regex to determine what to quote. A parameter to
> org-table-export would be an even better solution.
It is already possible. When asked for a format for conversion, you can
write something like:
orgtbl-to-csv :fmt tvd-org-quote-csv-field
You can also define your own format:
(defun my-orgtbl-to-Excel (table params)
"Convert the orgtbl-mode table to Excel.
This does take care of the proper quoting of fields with comma or quotes."
(orgtbl-to-generic table
(org-combine-plists '(:sep "," :fmt tvd-org-quote-csv-field)
params)))
and use it when prompted for a format in `org-table-export'.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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* Re: [feature-request] make org-quote-csv-field customizable
2017-08-03 22:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou
@ 2017-08-03 23:19 ` Tim Cross
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Tim Cross @ 2017-08-03 23:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nicolas Goaziou; +Cc: emacs-orgmode, Thomas von Dein
and from memory, you can also tell excel what the data type of each
column in a csv file is.
Nicolas Goaziou writes:
> Hello,
>
> Thomas von Dein <tom@vondein.org> writes:
>
>> currently when exporting a table to CSV, fields are quoted automatically
>> if they contain a comma or a quote character. The regexp for this
>> determination is hard-coded in 'org-quote-csv-field.
>>
>> This is good for most use cases. However, if you want to import such a
>> CSV with MS Excel then some unquoted fields will be automatically
>> converted by Excel into another format.
>>
>> An example is a field containing 192.168.10.233. 'org-quote-csv-field
>> doesn't quote it, but Excel - for reasons I cannot fathom - considers
>> this a number (it doesn't do this when the last octet is below 233
>> though) and converts it to 19216810233 - which is wrong.
>>
>> I wrote the following code to circumvent this Excel bug:
>>
>> (defun tvd-org-quote-csv-field (s)
>> "Quote every field and precede it with = to disable excel automatisms."
>> (if (string-match "." s)
>> (concat "=\"" (mapconcat 'identity
>> (split-string s "\"") "\"\"") "\"")
>> s))
>>
>> (defun table-to-excel ()
>> "export current org table to CSV format suitable for MS Excel."
>> (interactive)
>> ;; quote everything, map temporarily 'org-quote-csv-field
>> ;; to my version
>> (cl-letf (((symbol-function 'org-quote-csv-field)
>> #'tvd-org-quote-csv-field))
>> (org-table-export "/tmp/ex.csv" "orgtbl-to-csv")))
>>
>> To make this customizable, it would be good to have a variable which
>> contains the regex to determine what to quote. A parameter to
>> org-table-export would be an even better solution.
>
> It is already possible. When asked for a format for conversion, you can
> write something like:
>
> orgtbl-to-csv :fmt tvd-org-quote-csv-field
>
>
> You can also define your own format:
>
> (defun my-orgtbl-to-Excel (table params)
> "Convert the orgtbl-mode table to Excel.
> This does take care of the proper quoting of fields with comma or quotes."
> (orgtbl-to-generic table
> (org-combine-plists '(:sep "," :fmt tvd-org-quote-csv-field)
> params)))
>
> and use it when prompted for a format in `org-table-export'.
>
> Regards,
--
Tim Cross
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