Re: FTP Format

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:16:49 -0500, John Yeung
<gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Until there is a parameter that lets
you choose to enact parsing of Excel-style CSVs, there is really not
much point for me.

Based on the research that I did for writing programs to create CSV
files, and from what I've seen looking at Excel-generated CSV files, I
think Microsoft's output meets the CSV standards.

Unfortunately the standards allow for two different ways of handling
some character strings and CPYFRMIMPF probably only handles one of the
two ways.

Microsoft, of course, chose the method that provides less consistency
(they enclose character strings in "s only when required).

(Personally I chose to always enclose character strings in "s, whether
it's required or not. I don't know if that would make CPYFRMIMPF
happy because my CSV files never get processed by CPYFRMIMPF.)

Ken
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