Thanks for responding, Torsten. If I'm understanding your suggestion, then
what happens where the data from the dB already has a ; (semi-colon) in
it? Wouldn't this corrupt the import into excel?
dave
My question is whether there might be a more direct way to get the dB
data
into excel on
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Thanks for responding, Torsten. If I'm understanding your suggestion, then
what happens where the data from the dB already has a ; (semi-colon) in
it? Wouldn't this corrupt the import into excel?
This might cause a problem because
really doing
But that might be in option...
Cheers!!
Dan
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Thanks for responding, Torsten. If I'm understanding your suggestion, then
what happens where the data from the dB already has a ; (semi-colon) in
it? Wouldn't this corrupt the import into excel?
Please take a look at PEAR's
There definitely are colons, and there is a 'comments' field and
semi-colons may appear there. However I think I will include a note in the
help file for the admin to avoid using semi-colons in this field. Seems
the best solution. And you are right: A .csv is seen as an excel file, so
opening
Thanks, Christian, and all who responded. I think this is almost exactly
as it will work. The problem with using some kind of MySQL frontend is
that this would involve some knowledge of dB's and SQL (can't be certain
of this), and that it would be additional steps. For example, the GUI
already