130704 - CSV export does not use quotes or escapes to protect commas in fields.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124217

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Pradeep Sanders]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031115

Address Book export should either wrap output fields in quotes or escape commas
(or tabs when using tab-delimited) in the fields being exported. Currently,
commas are left unchanged, causing errors in parsing the CSV file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create an Address Book entry with a comma in any field.
2.Export Address Book to a CSV file.
3.Open the saved file in a text editor and verify that the field contains an
unescaped comma.

Actual Results:  A file was saved containing a single line for each entry in my
address book. Each field was written "as-is", without any checking for the
delimiter (tab or comma).

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have either written the file out with quotes
around each field (preferred), or escaped the comma using either a backslash or
a double comma. This probably should relate to what Mozilla can handle when
importing a CSV file.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking New and I easily reproduced the issue.

Comment 2

[Max Alekseyev]

Related bug 174142

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This was fixed as part of bug 124217 - duplicate