# Handle escaped quotes in CSVFiles/TextParse.jl

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/handle-escaped-quotes-in-csvfiles-textparse-jl/21824
**Category:** Data
**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/handle-escaped-quotes-in-csvfiles-textparse-jl/21824 "2019-03-13T14:54:02Z")
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### Author: ![chaydont](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chaydont/32/7406_2.png) [@chaydont](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chaydont)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/handle-escaped-quotes-in-csvfiles-textparse-jl/21824/1 "2019-03-13T14:54:02Z")

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Is it possible to read a csv that has quote-escaped quotes with CSVFiles, without keeping the 2 quotes in the string?

I’m trying to do something like this :

```julia
data =
       """
       1980-01-01T00:00:00.000Z\t5\tC\t"string"
       1980-01-01T00:00:00.001Z\t4\tA\t"Strin""g2"
       """

```

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### Author: ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/handle-escaped-quotes-in-csvfiles-textparse-jl/21824/2 "2019-03-13T16:48:30Z")

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Yes, there is a PR that is almost done that fixes that: [Fix escaped strings handling by davidanthoff · Pull Request #108 · queryverse/TextParse.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaComputing/TextParse.jl/pull/108). You could try that, I think it should be essentially ready, I just need to go over some last comments one more time and then I’ll merge it.