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Re: st: RE: Re: convert data to CSV


From   "Alan Neustadtl" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Re: convert data to CSV
Date   Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:36:52 -0500

The wikipedia entry on this topic is informative
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values).  Apparently
there is no one agreed upon formal specification.

Best,
Alan


On 12/16/06, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
In this part of Europe, namely Britain, comma-separated means
what it says. I haven't tested for change of behaviour on
the other side of La Manche.

Nick
[email protected]

Kit Baum

> Well, Microsoft Office Help for "CSV file" says that data items are
> separated by commas, so I don't know why Excel would expect that
> (unless a default preference has been altered). Perhaps European
> versions of MS Office behave differently because the comma is
> used as
> a digits separator. But RAY is on the same side of the pond as I am.

> On Dec 16, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Ben wrote:
>
> >
> > What Ray probably means is that Excel expects semicolons as
> delimiters
> > in a CSV file.

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