06, 2004 5:15 PM
To: jon roig
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP, Excel, and tab delimited files question
jon roig wrote:
Nah... Try it in excel itself and you'll see what I'm talking about.
You have to do it in numeric fields.
Do this in an excel field:
- Type 10 and hit
[snip]
Right... But the principal is still the same. Excel handles those types
of fields in a uniform way, regardless of whether you do the entry
yourself or if you just import a csv file.
[/snip]
Actually that is not correct. We have prefaced the data with the single
quote in the output process
It may wind up being a user-learning issue.
I dump things to pipe delimited file (whether in *nix land or winDoze)
and that way the users can open it in Excel. The ones who have to open
the files I just go to their desks the first time and show them how to
open the file, delimit it on the | and
Don't do it in the header, but in the field itself just put a ' before
the first character and excel will interpret it as a text field.
-- jon
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-Original Message-
From: Jay Blanchard
[snip]
Don't do it in the header, but in the field itself just put a ' before
the first character and excel will interpret it as a text field.
[/snip]
Tried that, the ' shows up. Don't want that to happen
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Do double quotes around help?
Jay Blanchard wrote:
[snip]
Don't do it in the header, but in the field itself just put a ' before
the first character and excel will interpret it as a text field.
[/snip]
Tried that, the ' shows up. Don't want that to happen
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: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:02 PM
To: Jay Blanchard
Cc: jon roig; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP, Excel, and tab delimited files question
Do double quotes around help?
Jay Blanchard wrote:
[snip]
Don't do it in the header, but in the field itself just put a ' before
the first character
jon roig wrote:
Nah... Try it in excel itself and you'll see what I'm talking about. You
have to do it in numeric fields.
Do this in an excel field:
- Type 10 and hit return.
... It becomes 10, right?
Now try it like this: '000100
... Tada! It stays as 00100 and puts a little green tab in the
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