freebcp -c and newlines
Ed Avis <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds |
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freebcp -c writes rows in a simple text format with a newline character at the end of each row. But if one of the columns itself contains a literal newline the output will be corrupt. It would be better for freebcp -c to check for newlines when writing data, and exit with an error status if it finds one. Probably it should also check for the separator character. If you want to write arbitrary data to a file you should use the binary bcp output format. If you agree that this would be a useful safety check to prevent corrupt output, I could submit a patch. -- Ed Avis <[email protected]>