<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/6 Frank Peelo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:f26p@eircom.net">f26p@eircom.net</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">CSV is occasionally referred to as something other than "Comma Separated Values". I'm not sure why. If you're using CSV, stick to what most applications understand by csv and benefit from some level of compatibility. Why make hassle for yourself? Excel (for example) can save tab delimited .txt files easily, but when you open them again you have to tell it what's used as a delimiter. If you save some data tab-delimited, but call it csv, then it's just /wrong/ when you open it again. Save it comma-delimited, and you can have any sort of text value in a cell, and it just opens.</blockquote>
<div>I only prefer tab delimiter because, upon copy/paste to/from Excel, you will get a tab delimited one, and you don't need to do anything special.</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span id=""></span>Oh, and since it's a text file, you'll want to be careful about whether to use CR, LF or CRLF as a line delimiter, they're all valid somewhere :)</blockquote>
<div>Also, this CR/LF problem is handled by the most of the text editors :P</div></div></div>