[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-4242) CSVReader shouldn't require that an escape character be defined

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-4242:
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Github user Wesley-Lawrence commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2088
  
    @markap14 Thanks for the feedback, and my apologies for the delayed response. Hopefully this latest commit address your feedback.
    
    Thanks so much for taking the time to review these PRs 🙂 


> CSVReader shouldn't require that an escape character be defined
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NIFI-4242
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4242
>             Project: Apache NiFi
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.0
>            Reporter: Wesley L Lawrence
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: NIFI-4242.patch, NIFI-4242.patch
>
>
> There are situations where, when parsing a CSV file, one doesn't want to define an escape character. For example, when using quote character ", the following is valid CSV;
> {code}
> a,"""b",c
> {code}
> The second column should be interpreted as "b. But when Apache Commons CSV is told that there's an escape character, the above row is invalid (interestingly, if it was """b""", it would be valid as "b"). 
> There are known formats that Apache Commons CSV provides, that doesn't define escape characters either.



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