[fpc-pascal] Spreadsheet library/unit?

[Frank Peelo]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Frank Peelo said:
> 
>>>An additional issue with delimiters in this case is the fact, that "C" in
>>>"CSV" may not always be a comma (or that spreadsheet applications may
>>>expect different characters depending on locale - e.g. semicolons, etc.).
>>
>>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! "12,345","67,890","I paid Ç12,34 for my lunch 
and I didn't even get chips!"
(For some reason € comes out as Ç when saved by Excel.)
It's being read/written by a spreadsheet anyway, which doesn't mind 
putting/reading extra quote chars.

(apropos spreadsheets, awkward delimiters and being off-topic: I notice 
that using '-' as a delimiter *in* *the* *filename* can give the 
spreadsheet indigestion. Specifically in a file with a name like 
Data_2008-10-06.xls when specifying an output reference for the 
Histogram tool in the Data Analysis Toolkit. Seems to want to evaluate 
(Data_2008 - 10 - 06.xls) as an expression. I only mention it in the 
hope that it gives someone a chuckle.)