CSV file pretty formatting

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Hi everybody

I’m using the “create CSV advanced Module” to have some data exported into a CSV file.
This works just great. The results are like this:

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Now I’m wondering if there’s a formatting option or a module that can help me format the data like this when I open the csv file:

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Any help is appreciated! Thanks

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Hi @chris99m
Yes this is possible
You can apply split function in each text with “,”
and then map the values into corresponding columns with get function

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Thanks @Msquare_Automation for the reply!

Highly appreciate your advice, I just looked and found the get and split functions!

How do I include them here?

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@chris99m
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I believe that the content is in one single cell for each row
if so you can get those rows and apply split function in a set variable as follows:

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replace the text variable with the actual data you want to split

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inside the columns you can get the corresponding values from the split array i.e x:

name: image
age:image
location:image
Relationship:image

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What happens if there are multiple lines inside the csv module?

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I kind of solved the problem by changing the Delimiter character to a semicolon. This happens because of Excel’s language settings.
In the english speaking version the Delimiter is set to “,” in other languages to “;”

However I would like to have a global approach. I want whoever opens the csv file to have the data split according to the columns. Thank you for explaining your approach - I think it might help I’ll try it out. :slight_smile:

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Hey there @chris99m :wave:

So awesome to hear that you solved this issue!

FYI: I marked your suggestion as a solution to keep the community organized and tidy for other users

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