Re: Getting a Handle on RPG’s Open Access -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Getting a Handle on RPG’s Open Access
From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:54:16 -0600
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Well, you and I are talking about different contexts within a worksheet - my point was limited to data types in a column - Excel allows any data types in different cells in a given column.

Your point is well taken, although it addresses a different issue, methinks.

On 12/23/2014 8:47 AM, John Yeung wrote:

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Vernon Hamberg
<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Account","Address","City","State","ZIP"
"Fred's Tire Store","123 Any Street","Los Angeles","CA",93276

Excel would open that just fine - it could care less about numeric vs alpha
in the ZIP column.

Excel does care, often more than we would like. Excel has a very
strong opinion about what should be a number, and it's extremely
awkward (in a CSV) to convince Excel to treat "numeric-looking" data
as character.

John Y.

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Re: Getting a Handle on RPG’s Open Access , John Yeung
Re: Getting a Handle on RPG’s Open Access , Henrik Rützou

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