SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2629437 - How to export report in unix csv format rather than MS Windows or DOS format, from Crystal Reports?

Symptom

  • How to export to Unix CSV format?
  • How to export report in unix CSV format rather than windows or DOS format?
  • How to not have carriage return when exporting to CSV format, from Crystal Reports?
  • When exporting to CSV format, a report that contains text that span over multiple lines, it add a carriage return characters at the end of each line. How to have a line feed instead, like in CSV Unix format? 

Environment

  • SAP Crystal Reports 2008
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2011
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2013
  • SAP Crystal Reports 2016

Reproducing the Issue

  1. In Crystal Reports, open a report that contains text that span over multiple lines.
  2. Export the report to CSV format.
  3. When opening the CSV file generated, notice there is carriage returns, when the expectation in Unix format is to have line feed instead.

Cause

  • MS Windows text files traditionally have carriage return and line feed pairs as their newline characters, while Unix text files have the line feed as their newline character. 
       
  • Crystal Reports is a MS Windows application, and it exports to MS Windows supported text format. ( CSV is a character separated value text file )

Resolution

  • There is no option to export the line feed in Unix format. Crystal Reports is a MS Windows application and it exports to MS Windows supported format.

See Also

1278932

Keywords

export, comma separated values, , KBA , BI-RA-CR , Crystal Reports designer or Business View Manager , How To

Product

Crystal Reports 2008 V1 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2011 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2013 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2016