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.
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
