Re: Excel & CSV files with long strings of digits

[Peter da Silva]

On Jun 1, 2007, at 5:58 AM, Anton Berezin wrote:
The file has a number of rows with three columns each, like this:
something;something else;1234567890123456

The attachments are opened in Excel - by default - and the user sees

something   something else    1.234E15

BTDT

I got the WTF mail and opted to feed them '1234567890123450'. Didn't 
investigate long enough to discover that Excel hadn't actually thrown 
the data away yet.