Problem saving excel as CVS when last field is blank for all values

[Napoleon]

Hello,

I am attempting to save an excel file as a CVS file in order to bul
insert it into SQL Server (I know DTS can import Excel files directly
but I need to use Bulk Insert).

The problem is that the all of the values in the final field is blan
(I did not create the file). For example:
Field1 Field2 Field3
1 2
1 2
1 2

The problem is when I save it as a CVS file only the first 16 rows hav
a comma between Field2 and Field3. The rest of the rows only has
comma after Field1. For example:
Field1,Field2,Field3
1,2,
1,2,
1,2
1,2

Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this?

Thank

 

[NickHK]

That's way Excel exports data, in blocks of 16 rows. Can't find MS KB
article at the moment, but this is by design.
Either make sure there is a least 1 value (even a "" or 0) in each 16 row
block, or save your own data.

NickHK

 

[Dave Peterson]

Saved from a previous post:

This might describe the problem of too many commas in CSV files:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=77295
Column Delimiters Missing in Spreadsheet Saved as Text

(It actually describes missing delimiter, but if some are "missing", maybe the
ones appearing are "extra".)

(But a lot of programs (excel included) don't care about those extra columns.
Maybe you don't have to care, either???)

Maybe you could write your own exporting program that would behave exactly the
way you want:

Here are three sites that you could steal some code from:

Earl Kiosterud's Text Write program:
www.smokeylake.com/excel
(or directly: http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/text_write_program.htm)

Chip Pearson's:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/imptext.htm

J.E. McGimpsey's:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/textfiles.html

(or maybe you could build your own formula and copy|paste into Notepad.)