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    jeffdude is offline Senior Member
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    Default Import target '\'

    I imported targets with urls going into the description. One URL happened to end with a \

    It did not throw an error during import yet that record imported wrong. The end result is that the fields were shifted somehow.

    Regardless this is a bug. An error should have been given.

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    Default Re: Import target '\'

    It's definitely an unexpected result but not sure it is a bug. Seems to be a bad data input. It's hard to detect that exact case as it could very well be what was intended to be imported.

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    It resulted in the phone number going into the Last Name field, the email going into the phone number field, etc, etc. It did not obey the comma delimited input.

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    Default Re: Import target '\'

    It did obey the comma delimited input which is why you are seeing the issue. The "\" is an escape character which means it ignores the comma if the import file is formatted like "www.google.com\,".

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    Default Re: Import target '\'

    I didn't know that it was an escape character

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