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.
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