Convert CSV to Row or a Column to CSV

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Convert Rows To CSV or CSV to Rows

Douglas Karr Thursday, January 5, 2023

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How To Use This Online Tool

It never fails that every time I’m working to move data from one system to another using a text area field, I have my data formatted incorrectly. Some systems want all of the values in a comma-separated value (CSV) like this:

value1, value2, value3

And other applications want a list with each item on its own row like this:

value1
value2
value3

So, here’s another cool little Martech Zone app for you that does just that! Just paste your data in the Source Data text area and click the option you’d like to convert the data into the Destination Data text area. If you’re viewing this article anywhere but on my site, be sure to click through to the Convert Rows To CSV app.

The conversion app also:

Removes duplicate entries
Orders the results in alphanumeric order
Trims each of the values so that the result is clean of leading or trailing spaces.

Keep in mind that this is just a browser-based tool so inserting millions of rows may not be possible since it’s your local browser and resources that are doing the work.

Any other features or feedback you’d like to see with this conversion tool? Feel free to let me know in the comments.

Douglas Karr Thursday, January 5, 2023

0 34 1 minute read

Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is the founder of the Martech Zone and a recognized expert on digital transformation. Douglas has helped start several successful MarTech startups, has assisted in the due diligence of over $5 bil in Martech acquisitions and investments, and continues to launch his own platforms and services. He's a co-founder of Highbridge, a digital transformation consulting firm. Douglas is also a published author of a Dummie's guide and a business leadership book.

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It all started as a book club.

Yes, I’m serious. I started my work on the web more than two decades ago. My first site was a site called Helping Hand that curated the best sites from around the web to help people with their computers and with navigating resources on the Internet. Years later I sold the domain to a company that helped folks quit smoking, one of my first big contracts.

I began blogging on Blogger and waxed poetic about everything from politics to Internet tools. I was all over the place and mostly wrote for myself – without much of an audience. I belonged to a Marketing Book club in Indianapolis that quickly grew out of control. Over time, I found out that more and more of the group were coming to me for technology advice. The combination of my technology background and my business and marketing acumen was in high demand as the Internet rapidly brought change to the industry.

After reading Naked Conversations, I was motivated to better brand and control the content on the site. I also wanted more control over the look and feel of my blog, so I moved to my domain in 2006 and built my first WordPress site. Since I was focused on marketing technology, I didn’t want the domain with my name to get in the way, so I moved the site (painfully) to its new domain in 2008 where it’s grown ever since.

The Martech Zone is owned and operated by DK New Media, LLC, a company I started in 2009. After working with virtually every major online marketing department in my tenure at ExactTarget and launching Compendium, I knew there was a great demand for my expertise and guidance within such a complex industry.

DK New Media is my personal company overseeing my publications, podcasts, workshops, webinars, and speaking gigs. Highbridge is my agency with two other partners that helps companies maximize their investment in sales, marketing, and related products. We offer integration, migration, training, strategic consulting, and custom development.

Thank you so much for your support over the years!

Douglas Karr
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VP, Highbridge