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  3. April 2003

Re: CSV file and the delimiter

Yes, Booth, if you take out the currency symbol. It'll even format the cell as Numeric, 2 decimal places, with commas, instead of General. I tested this by copying ths string below and pasting into Excel. Then making a version without the currency symbol and pasting that in.

HTH

Vern

At 10:37 PM 4/19/2003 -0400, you wrote:

I'd be interested in some feedback on building CSV files.

When one uses the comma delimiter one must deal with the possibility of
embedded commas within the character data.   Enclosing character fields in
matched quotes will deal with that, but what happens if you enclose all
fields in matching quotes, even numeric fields?

Will Excel accept a numeric column as numeric, even if its in quotes?  Would
it understand that an edited numeric field  "-$1,000,000.00" is a negative
number?


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