RE: 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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