[fpc-pascal] Spreadsheet library/unit?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Oct 6 21:40:54 CEST 2008


In our previous episode, Frank Peelo said:
> >>CSV is occasionally referred to as something other than "Comma Separated 
> >>Values". I'm not sure why. 
> > 
> > 
> > Because the comma is a bad separator for countries where the comma is the
> > decimal separator, like most of mainland Europe.
> 
> But CSV handles that fine!

CSV is just that comma separated.

Quoting is one common workaround. Another is to use a different separator.
And iirc Excel does that sometimes too. Maybe it is version dependant.

My favorite "csv" experience is to get csv's from the web opened in Excel,
for both Dutch as English locales. Really a sport :-)




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