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  3. August 2007

Re: Getting data into a PF from an Excel spreadsheet

How do you do tab-delimited? What is the hex to insert? As in:



D Tab c '????'

C eval record = City + Tab + State + Tab + zip



Scott Klement wrote:
James Lampert wrote:
But would that work for data that has commas and other punctuation (and in one column, what appear to be CRLFs) in it?


Consider using tab-delimited files instead of CSV. There's no drawbacks that I know of to using tab-delimited, and it solves all of the CSV problems.

Not sure why so many people recommend CSV, it has always had problems with commas and quotes -- tab delimited never has had these problems.


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