Re: Converting tab delimited file to CSV
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:39:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Converting tab delimited file to CSV | ||
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On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 13:24 -0500, Andrew Ballard wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2008 1:08 PM, Graham Cossey <graham.cossey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My biggest gripe with tab delimited files is
> > that they are quite a bit bigger than comma delimited files so I may
> > have to split the large files I receive into smaller 'chunks' to allow
> > them to be uploaded.
> >
> >
> Why would tab-delimited files be larger than CSV? A tab character takes up
> just as much space as a comma as far as document size is concerned. Am I
> missing something?
He's probably confusing tab delimited with fixed width columns.
Cheers,
Rob.
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