On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Adam Solove <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd like to strongly disagree. While csv is not a great way to send
> objects back and forth, it is a fantastic way to give reports to
> users, since they can play around with them in Excel.
>

On the other hand, if you know that the users who are going to be viewing
the report in Excel are using Office 2007 or greater you can just format the
data into an Excel .xlsx file and present them that as the result. No need
to worry about converting to .csv and then the user having to import it into
Excel to read it.

B.

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