Restructuring Text file to CSV
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I should add, that this will be a Crystal Reports Export to be done by another party.
not that that should make any difference.
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So you are wanting a TSV, not a CSV?
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This is super easy. So assuming that your file is myfile.csv and you are on Linux, just do this...
unexpand myfile.csv > myfile.tsvLike magic, Linux saves the day.
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@scottalanmiller said:
So you are wanting a TSV, not a CSV?
While I suppose technically speaking, yes it would be a TSV - Tab Space Value.
However, TSV is not a Text file option in Excel - Only CSV
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Excel doesn't know formats, it just knows extensions
Windows apps are not very smart. -
Also, all the data is [TAB] not [,]
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@scottalanmiller said:
Excel doesn't know formats, it just knows extensions
Windows apps are not very smart.I won't argue you there...
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@gjacobse said:
While I suppose technically speaking, yes it would be a TSV - Tab Space Value.
This would be Tab Separated Value
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How are you planning to resatructure this prior to importing?
You say a user is doing this? Then teach them how to handle it in Excel. You will be hard pressed to get a user to do much outside of an office application.
Please be more specific about what you are doing with these files.
- who is exporting it and from where.
- who is restructuring it
- who is opening it in Excel
- where is it going after that
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LOL, right. It's Tab instead of space! The original file is an SSB, Space Separate Values.
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@JaredBusch said:
@gjacobse said:
While I suppose technically speaking, yes it would be a TSV - Tab Space Value.
This would be Tab Separated Value
Yea,.. there is that...
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So anyway, that one command solves the problem nice and easy.
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I expect that the 'best course of action' is to have the User rerun the export and adjust accordingly.
However I was hoping to perform a trial run of the import with the data I have, about 100 lines or so. But each row has seven (x)DATE items...
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@gjacobse said:
I expect that the 'best course of action' is to have the User rerun the export and adjust accordingly.
However I was hoping to perform a trial run of the import with the data I have, about 100 lines or so. But each row has seven (x)DATE items...
So does the command that I provided work? Can you provide full sample data so that we can test?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@gjacobse said:
I expect that the 'best course of action' is to have the User rerun the export and adjust accordingly.
However I was hoping to perform a trial run of the import with the data I have, about 100 lines or so. But each row has seven (x)DATE items...
So does the command that I provided work? Can you provide full sample data so that we can test?
My apologies Scott, I missed your Linux command in a page refresh.
Sadly I don't have this file on a Linux system.. Windows only...
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@gjacobse said:
Sadly I don't have this file on a Linux system.. Windows only...
So copy it, only takes a second.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@gjacobse said:
Sadly I don't have this file on a Linux system.. Windows only...
So copy it, only takes a second.
Maybe true, but my earlier questions remains unanswered. Those are more important than a simple "just copy it" answer.
He clearly stated this will be something repeated later with at least one more file. Thus I asked what the true purpose here is supposed to be.
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@JaredBusch said:
Maybe true, but my earlier questions remains unanswered. Those are more important than a simple "just copy it" answer.
He clearly stated this will be something repeated later with at least one more file. Thus I asked what the true purpose here is supposed to be.
Exporting IT Tickets from TrackIT to be imported into SpiceWorks
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@gjacobse said:
Exporting IT Tickets from TrackIT to be imported into SpiceWorks
Ah, then I would do what @scottalanmiller said. Copy it to a Linux system quickly and convert it.
Alternately staying in WIndows you could use Notepad++ advanced find and replace features to pattern match and replace the space with a tab.
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Notepad will do the same thing.
