At 23:51 12/08/2001 -0700, Bernie Corrigan wrote:
Bernie
I don't think so. I thought ANSI/BSI declared a standard yonks ago which
R:base follows. ie
Columns separated by the declared separator, coma being the default.
Text data types enclosed in the declared quotes, this includes datetime
types. If their is a quote in the string another is added adjacent to it.
Ian
> It looks like the rules RBase follows for producing a CSV file are:
>
>Separate column/cell values with commas.
>
>and
>
>If the column/cell value contains only a comma then surround the column/cell
>value with quotes.
>
>If the column/cell value contains quote marks then don't do anything.
>
>If the column/cell value contains both comma(s) and quote marks then
>surround the column/cell with quotes and place doubled quote marks in place
>of each of the original quote marks.
>
>
>Bernie
