Carol Walter wrote:
Hello,

My supervisor has requested that I copy a small database to Excel for her to look at. The first time I did it, I used the copy command and the data was so dirty that it didn't come in very well. Someone suggested that I use a pipe to delimit the data so that the Excel can ignore the commas that are imbedded in the data. I tried to do that and I'm having trouble with the syntax.

Is there another list where I should bring this kind of query question? I have already searched for an answer on the postgres.org site, but didn't turn up anything useful for this.

I would use Access, but if you have to use Excel, make sure you do it via ODBC so you don't have to clean up the data.

J



Thanks,
Carol

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