Escape commas in OSE csv export
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Hi
When I import an OSE Site Crawl .csv to Excel, the lines get messed up. This is due to commas within the crawled site: For instance, when there is a comma in the Meta Description field, it gets separated into two fields. Is there any way to escape this so that only the correct fields get separated?
Thanks!
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Phillip,
Thanks for writing in! Just so I could see the problem that you are looking at, could you let me know the reports that you are looking at that you are seeing this issue If you could let me know which report you downloaded, I could see if I could replicate this issue!
Looking forward in hearing from you.
Peter SEOmoz Help Team.
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Hi Tom
Thanks for your tip. But my problem is the exact opposite. It's not that I have additional commas. Instead, a comma which appears in the site's content (such as the Meta Desc) and therefore shows up in the Site Crawl .csv, is interpreted as a csv delimiter.
What happens on importing the .csv is that a sentence containing a comma is split up into two cells.
IMO this is actually a problem with OSE's export which should make sure that commas are escaped in a .csv!
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Hi Philipp
I think you can remove the comma separation in excel for your worksheet. Try this guide out (lifted from here)
Open the worksheet that contains the data from which you want to remove trailing commas.
Right-click the header of the column directly to the right of the data column that you want to clean. Click "Insert" in the menu to insert a new function column.
Type the following in the cell in the formula column adjacent to the first data cell:
=IF(RIGHT(A1,1)=",",LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1),A1)
Substitute the cell address of your first data cell in place of all instances of "A1" in the above example.
Press "Enter." Excel first determines whether the rightmost value in the data cell is a comma. If so, it determines the number of characters in the cell using the "Len" function and then returns only the leftmost N minus 1 characters, thus omitting the comma. If no comma is detected at the end of the string, then Excel returns the original cell value.
Right-click the formula cell and click "Copy." Paste the formula into the cell directly to the right of all cells from which you want to clean the commas. Excel will perform the comma-trimming function on all cells and return the update value in the formula column.
Highlight all formula cells, then right-click the array and choose "Copy."
Highlight the original data cells, then right-click the array and choose "Paste Special." Click the radio button next to "Values," then click the "OK" button. Excel will copy the output strings from the comma-less formula cells into your original data cells as static character strings.
Highlight the formula column, then right-click the array and click "Delete" from the menu. This will delete the formula column now that a permanent copy of the formula output has been saved in the original data column.
Not sure if this will help you, but here's hoping.
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