RE: [PHP] Converting tab delimited file to CSV
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:49:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Converting tab delimited file to CSV | ||
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On Mon, February 18, 2008 10:36 am, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> [snip]
> That's funny... MS defaults to tabs for a file whose extension is .csv
> which is an acronym for (C)omma (S)eparated (V)alues.
> [/snip]
>
> Welcome to Microsoft....where do we want you to go today?
I think it defaults to whatever you last used, not to a specific choice.
I also *think* that MS actually invented CSV, as I recall...
Probably, since the mess of comma, quotes to escape commas, and
double-quotes to escape the quotes not escaping the commas, is typical
of the wooly-brained MS "design" (sic)
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