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On 18/12/06, Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs-hates@xxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > The real hate for me, though, with CSV isn't asinine customers, but CSV itself. > People say "a CSV" file as if that were a reference to some well-understood > format. No two things seem to agree on whether a set of values can include > commas, newlines, escaped quotes, or what. Oh, and how do you escape quotes? > \" or "" or something even stupider? Try opening a tab-separated file with Excel when the file name ends in ".csv" (a hate in itself. Yet I never see ".tsv" files). Splat! A big pile of shit all over your screen. The work-around is to highlight the first column and choose "Data -> Cells from Text" (paraphrased) or something idiotic like that. I could have sworn that there used to be an "import" menu item that gave you a dialog box to select separator, etc., but I'm buggered if I can find it these days. Thankfully I leave that to the Windows users; OOo Calc does the right thing for me. For once. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/There's stuff above here
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