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Subject:	Re: CSV delimiters
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish
Date:	Sat, 23 Sep 2000 19:02:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Anders Isaksson writes: > The MS programs (and many others too, as followers) don't use the literal > comma, but the Windows system parameter 'List separator'. This means for me > here in Sweden, where we are using comma for decimal point and semicolon as > list separator, that Excel produces a 'CSV' file with semicolons as > separators, and decimal commas (and sometimes the point as thousands > separator)!!! Dang. THAT is a very important piece of info -- thanks! OK... Are there any popular programs out there (on the level of Excel, etc.) which only handle CSV text and don't handle tab-delimited text data? --Todd

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		Re: CSV delimiters
Todd Lehman skrev i meddelandet ... (...) I see in the thread that you've got most of the answers you need, but there is at least one complication in the Windows world (if you ever get files from that): The MS programs (and many others too, as (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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