What I hate is the people that think they know everything - Telling someone that wants to learn and possibly improve the software, the question wasn't phrased just right is just wrong. I think a Google Search for Tab Deliminated info will result in 444,000 English hits. Enough for me to know that Tab Deliminated is the Right Choice of words for the question.
Thanks Lar for asking the question. I have been using "Deliminated" files since as long as I have been using a computer. I started with databases 19 years ago and used tab deliminated files to transfer data (comma deliminated files would not work due to the date having a comma in it making the columns and headings not line up). Although this rant does not help you with importing a Tab Deliminated file - I hope you feel better about asking the question and hope you find someone that knows what they are talking about verses a the person who originally responed to your question. Thanks Doug Pyatt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars D. Nood�n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:18 AM Subject: Re: [discuss] opening tab delimitted files with a .xls suffix in the OO spreadsheet pgm On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Eike Rathke wrote: [...] > Sorry, but there's no such thing as a "tab delimited file". There are > text files that contain tabs, some of them are intended to be used as > "delimited files", others are not. That's what I mean a table where the columns are delimited by tabs. This is also know as tab delimited. > .txt has never been an extension to indicate tab-delimited. .txt has been an extension to indicate a text file. Some of these text files contain a table where the data is organized in columns which are delimited by tabs. Around 5 years ago, I also saw a fair number of these labeled with the .tab file name extension. Most (all?) spreadsheets and databases that I saw from 1985-1999 saved this kind of file with the .txt extension. I don't have old copies of or even my old manuals from Visicalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro, Qubecalc, MS-Excel4 & 5, etc. so I can't cite specifics, but I think you understand what Frank is requesting. -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Internet is for Everyone: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3271.txt?number=3271 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
