I receive the following catalog validation error when uploading and validating a Catalog Interchange Format (CIF) file:

Currency aribacurrency is not valid.  

Here is an example of an affected row in the catalog:

AN01000000000,2772882,TTSIBM412CID,4-Line System Phone with Headset and Caller ID,43191504,45.24,EA,1,"Q" Intellidata,http://www.example.com/2772967,,50.24,EA,en_US,USD,4-Line Phone,,,,,,               

To escape the quotation mark for this term, preface the double quotation mark with a backslash (\) so that it is read as a quotation mark instead of a delimiter.

Here is the corrected example:

AN01000000000,2772882,TTSIBM412CID,4-Line System Phone with Headset and Caller ID,43191504,45.24,EA,1,\"Q" Intellidata,http://www.example.com/2772967,,50.24,EA,en_US,USD,4-Line Phone,,,,,,

The "Q" in the manufacturer's name term is being processed in a way that was not intended. Quotation marks are used as delimiters in CIF formatting.

The characters (;), (,), (}), and (\) can adversely affect the formatting if they appear in terms.

For more information and examples, see the Ariba Catalog Format Reference Guide.

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