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Too Many Fields Error

smrithiraj
7 - Meteor

Hi 

 

I am importing a csv file which has data like below..... The "TEXT" column has the text "within quotes" in inner double quotes.

And because of this, I get an error message as 

Record #1: An unescaped quote was found: "This is "within quotes"

How do I rectify this issue? I have millions of text records in this way.

 

TEXT,ACTIVE
"This is "within quotes" a text","Y"

 

Thanks

Smrithi

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geraldo
13 - Pulsar

@smrithiraj 

 


Is the message coming out in Alteryx as an error or is it coming out as a warning?
The warning performs the import correctly but warns that the text contains these characteristics

danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

Hi @smrithiraj 

 

Configure your input tool to "Ignore Delimiters in" = None and then trim the resulting extra quotes

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Dan

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