On Mar 18, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Andrew Ballard wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Ashley Sheridan
<ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
And I believe that when MS Office saves a CSV out with a character
other
than a comma as the delimiter, it still saves it as a .csv by
default.
Nope. If you save as CSV, it is comma-separated with double-quotes as
the text qualifier. There is also an option to save in tab-delimited
format, but the default extension for that is .txt.
The only issue I have with Excel handling text files is with columns
like ZIP code that should be treated as text (they are string
sequences that happen to contain only numeric digits where leading
zeros are significant) but are interpreted as numbers.
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
As a fellow mailing list processor I can feel your pain... One thing I
have found is when you are importing the data, you can select the zip
column and change the format from "general" to "text" and it will
maintain the leading zero's. Or a simple filter applied to it
afterwards will help to.
But if you have a decent CASS software then it should add the zip back
in hehe :)
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