On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:24:12PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > On 6/1/07, Anton Berezin <[email protected]> wrote: > >I experimented a bit, and > > > >1234567890123456 > > 1234567890123456 > >"1234567890123456" > > > >are all silently and without complaint converted to a floating point > >number. > > > >'1234567890123456' gets converted to '1234567890123456', which is better, > >but only slightly. > > Did you try > > '1234567890123456 > > with a leading but no trailing quotation mark?
Yup - it would work if I were to generate an Excel file directly. In CSV conversion, one just gets '1234567890123456 verbatim, as it was. The converter is hatefully cleverer than you or me. \Anton. -- We're going for 'working' here. 'clean' is for people with skills... -- Flemming Jacobsen
