When I put "-" in a field it is causing a series of random lettering in the output of the csv file

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Hello,

In my input file I have “Determ. Sys. – Cost of In-house Activities” in the output csv received from Parabola it spits out “Determ. Sys. – Cost of In-house Activities”. What can I do to avoid this from occurring it does not look great.

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Hi Jailynn,

Thanks for writing in! This is likely occurring because the hyphen is recognized as a special character. You can work around this by either using a “find and replace” step to try and replace the hyphen, a clean with JSON option under the “clean data” step, or use the regex step.

Feel free to ping help@parabola.io if you’d like us to take a look at your data specifically.

All the best,
Cat

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