[ckan-discuss] CSV files vs tab delimited text

Wed Oct 2 01:58:54 BST 2013

If CKAN could infer the delimiter and/or provide the user with an option to
select their own, that would be a nice piece of functionality.

On 2 October 2013 11:20, Aaron McGlinchy
<McGlinchyA at landcareresearch.co.nz>wrote:

> Hi,
>    I was demonstrating CKAN to someone the other day, and showing them how
> for a CSV file you can preview the data, draw graphs (and map if spatial
> data).  This is a really nice feature of CKAN.
>
> The person raised the question of commas (',') in a dataset and suggested
> that using tab delimited text files can get around that issue.
>
> So, could the preview  be adapted to cope with tab delimited text?  How
> have other people dealt with ',' in the data?
>
> Thanks
> Aaron
>
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