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Unable to open csv in alteryx

saachitalwar
8 - Asteroid

Hi, 

 

When I tried to open a csv file containing 292 columns, an error popped up saying "Too many fields in record#1"

 

So I changed the number of fields to 292 in the input tool as shown in the attachment. Now the fields are getting truncated to one column.

 

Can someone please help out with this please.

 

 

 

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apathetichell
18 - Pollux

That column is the number of characters - not the number of fields. Set that at like 29200.  You should identify why you have too many columns... Is it because you have a delimiter in quotes? Do you have a delimiter wrong?

saachitalwar
8 - Asteroid

It is still getting truncated. I don't think there's too many columns because of a delimiter error. All the columns contain different headers.

Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

@saachitalwar 
How about changing Delimiter to Comma?

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saachitalwar
8 - Asteroid

didn't work :/

Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

A sample input file would be good so we can take a closer look.

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