On Dec 24, 2005, at 18:59, Brian Bernard wrote:
What I was intending to ask is whether a CSV can be created with the logic to open with auto-sized columns, when opened in a application capable of displaying the data in columns. For example, if you view an html file in a text editor, you will see the html formatting but not in the way that it was intended to be viewed, since a text editor does not display html. Is there a way to add extra logic to a CSV such that when it is opened in Excel, the data that is delimited is injected into columns that are auto-sized? I am aware of better ways of doing this, I just want to know if what I am asking is possible.
Nope, CSV is plain text plus some conventions for delimiting records and fields (conventions have variations). No room for formatting metadata like that. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma- separated_values.
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