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

["Alan Neustadtl" <alan.neustadtl@gmail.com>]

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 <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> 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
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> 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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