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Re: CSV File Creation to include Excel formula

Oops! I misspoke!

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:04 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 10:45 AM, <dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Otherwise, I think I
can say that if the cell gets stored in a comma-delimited CSV as follows:

...,"=("""")",...

Then Excel will treat it as the text value for the cell.

Correct.

Actually, Excel is pretty aggressive about trying to treat things NOT
as text, if it can get away with it. It manages to strip away one
layer of quote-escaping, and ultimately loads the formula anyway.

I believe you can get the undesired effect you're looking for with
more quoting, but I'm doing some testing before posting, to make sure
I don't screw up yet again.

John Y.

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