Ian -
Not so. There is no apparent ANSI standard for CSV (comma separated
values) which can be found on their web site. I would suggest you look at
the antique article (9/28/95)
http://www.ansi.org/public/iisp/std_need/need24.html
Which begins: "The need exists for document delivery functions to allow
exchange of information between government, scientific data, business
information, medicine, standards development, and national security
management electronic publishing applications. Without this standard, the
application-to-application interface (AAI) is not defined and publicly
available for the national and global information infrastructure (NII/GII)."
CSV is specifically listed as one of the items for which a standard is
needed. A search of the ANSI web site under several topics turned up no CSV
standard. If you can find the ANSI definition please let me/us know how to
get to it.
Bernie
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At 06:57 PM 8/13/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>At 23:51 12/08/2001 -0700, Bernie Corrigan wrote:
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>Bernie
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>I don't think so. I thought ANSI/BSI declared a standard yonks ago which
>R:base follows. ie
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>Columns separated by the declared separator, coma being the default.
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>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:
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>>Separate column/cell values with commas.
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>>and
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>>If the column/cell value contains only a comma then surround the column/cell
>>value with quotes.
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>>If the column/cell value contains quote marks then don't do anything.
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>>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.
>>
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>>Bernie
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