2008/10/6 Frank Peelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CSV is occasionally referred to as something other than "Comma Separated > Values". I'm not sure why. If you're using CSV, stick to what most > applications understand by csv and benefit from some level of compatibility. > Why make hassle for yourself? Excel (for example) can save tab delimited > .txt files easily, but when you open them again you have to tell it what's > used as a delimiter. If you save some data tab-delimited, but call it csv, > then it's just /wrong/ when you open it again. Save it comma-delimited, and > you can have any sort of text value in a cell, and it just opens.
I only prefer tab delimiter because, upon copy/paste to/from Excel, you will get a tab delimited one, and you don't need to do anything special. > Oh, and since it's a text file, you'll want to be careful about whether to > use CR, LF or CRLF as a line delimiter, they're all valid somewhere :) Also, this CR/LF problem is handled by the most of the text editors :P
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