Support Article
Value with comma treated as different column in CSV generatedBIX
SA-11987
Summary
When user extract the data which has comma as part of value, extracted CSV treat value as two values due to comma delimiter.
For example if value to read from BIX is 50,000 . In CSV this value would come in two different columns due to comma.
Resolution
Use delimiter option (-l) in BIX command line and use any character which users use less frequently like Exclamation(!), Percent (%) or some non ASCII non alphanumeric character and also prohibit the same delimiter character as input in all forms.
Additional reference: page #25 of user guide of BIX at - https://pdn.pega.com/documents/bix-63-user-guide
Published July 10, 2015 - Updated December 2, 2021
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