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Name         : csvutils505
Author       : Lars (L505)
Email        : fpcunits(at)z505(dot)com
Homepage     : http://z505.com
FTP site     : https://opensvn.csie.org/pspcgi/psp-1.6.x-devel/extras/csv/
Version      : 0.0.1
Date         : 2007-03-20
Category     : Miscellaneous
Supported OS : All (linux, bsd, windows, etc)
Description  :
CSV utilities for making CSV files. Does not read data from CSV files yet - just creates CSV files.
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I searched the internet for simple routines to create CSV files and could not find any. The ones I found were either overly complicated, or they didn't create proper CSV files. So I built some procedures that create CSV cells and create new rows. 
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These CSV utilities are compatible with Microsoft Excel so for example quotes are doubled together and the data is comma delimited. However, you can specify any delimiter you want with these routines, and any encloser you want.
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For optimization this utility can write to memory using a capstring (enhanced chunk growing ansistring). In the future there will be an option to write directly to a file instead of going through ansistring or capstring first.