On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 10:06 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> I tried to import plain tables that I created with Excel. I opened the  
> tables in Openoffice and Gnumeric without problems. Then I saved them  
> in the cvs format. Actually these two cvs files differ from each  
> other. But Glom fails to import both of them. The failure is partial,  
> since around 1/4 of the records are correctly loaded.

Could you please attach an example .csv file to a bug report in
bugzilla, so I can investigate this?

> I believed that the different cvs formats was an issue, therefore I  
> created a dummy table whit Glom and exported it as a cvs file. This  
> should reveal the cvs formatting adopted by Glom. In fact the Glom cvs  
> format differ from the previous two. But unfortunately, when I tried  
> to re-import the cvs file generated with Glom in Glom it self, the  
> operation failed since many fields where misinterpreted, although all  
> the records have been loaded.

And I'd like an example file for this too, please, along with a
description of what data was misinterpreted.

> So, I have two question, a practical one and a general one:
> 
>   - Which format is suitable to import data in Glom?
> 
>   - Why Glom is not compatible with the cvs format chosen in Gnumeric?
> 
> It would be kind of you to address at least one question, preferably  
> the first one.
> I look forward to your answer.


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