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st: re: chunky errors
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Christopher Baum <[email protected]>
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st: re: chunky errors
Date
Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:17:58 -0500
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Dmitri said
Peeking at the first 2 lines of raw_price_data.csv
1003,2008-03-23,0,Disc,NULL,7.99,7.87678139240359,8.35,8.56885514506366,10.7974394069005,NULL,10.2566666666667,6.99,6.99,7.99,7.77333333333333,10.36
> 5,NULL,NULL,5.99,5.99,5.99,NULL,
I suspect this file may have been saved as Unicode (e.g., UTF-8) and that the non-printing characters represent a BOM (Byte Order Mark). There is no reason for a .csv file to be saved as Unicode unless there is content that does not appear in the full 256-character ASCII set (8-bit ASCII). If a file contained something like, e.g., accented characters from Polish or Turkish, or text in Cyrillic, it could end up as UTF-8.
Kit
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