Thanks Sergiy, I did not know about that command. Below is a line
from my hexdump:
130 | 304b ff1f 002c 0031 002c 0032 000d 000a | 0K...,.1.,.2....
I also noticed this when I ran with option Analyze:
Line-end characters
\r\n (Windows) 0
\r by itself (Mac) 5
\n by itself (Unix) 5
which looks suspicious to me. I'll talk to the tech guys who made this file.
Thanks again Sergiy.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Sergiy Radyakin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Dan,
>
> how data "looks like" depends on, which software "looks" at it. From
> what I see in your message, there is double-byte encoding of letters
> which may cause a problem.
>
> I suggest you first "look" at your data byte-by-byte, to find a
> pattern you need, then filter your data based on that pattern.
> Use
> -hexdump- filename
> to see how your data is structured. Check that you are using correct
> separator "comma" and not "tab", that "comma" in your file is indeed a
> standard ASCII "comma" and not some weird two-bytes comma, that a
> "comma" byte (44) is not used for encoding other characters, etc.
>
> Perhaps you could post a portion of output from hexdump here if this
> does not contradict any rules of the list.
>
> Regards, Sergiy Radyakin
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Dan Weitzenfeld
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> Quick but strange question. I'm trying to insheet a comma-delimited
>> file with Japanese in it. For example, the first line looks like:
>>
>> あなたはこのＣＭが好きですか？,0,とても好き
>>
>> The only information I need is the second variable, the 0, which will
>> always be numeric.
>>
>> However, when I insheet the file, I get nonsense:
>>
>> þÿ0B0j0_0o0S0nÿ#ÿ-0LY}0M0g0Y0Kÿ 0h0f0‚Y}0M
>>
>> which would be okay, except that the second variable always comes in as blank.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a solution for this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Dan
>>
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