[fpc-pascal] Spreadsheet library/unit?

[Antal]

2008/10/6 Frank Peelo <f26p at eircom.net>

> 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.

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.

> 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 :)

Also, this CR/LF problem is handled by the most of the text editors :P
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