Steve,

It's not a bug. Special characters, such as quotes and backslashes, are escaped on export. The escape character is a backslash. Many programs require these characters to be escaped in order to, for example, import quote delimited values that include quote marks.

If the escaped characters are a problem, you'll need to run your export file through a routine that strips the extra slashes, or use the SBasic file i/o commands in a mass update instead of Export.

We do intend to increase the number of formatting options available for export in future versions.

If quotes are your problem, Sesame export will already allow you to specify a custom character as the delimiter. Specify something other than a " mark. You may find that % or | works better for you.

Same goes for the comma separator. You may be better off with a Tab separator.

The issue of delimiting and separating values that may contain the delimiter and/or separator is one which has plagued export/import since the dawn of time. 

I'm still having problems importing from a .csv. Sesame is throwing out "/" and splitting up text at every comma. I replaced the comma with a + sign and replace "/" with "//" but there must be a better way.

Where can I find out which characters are "escaped" on import/export?

Using Notepad to add quotes around text doesnt seem to help.

Thanks for any advice.

Steve in Texas