On 08/19/2013 07:46 PM, Stephen Herr wrote:
Wikipedia tells me that I am wrong, and that people commonly use separators
other than commas in CSV
files. So never mind what I said.
Yes, exactly. I read that up as well before I wrote the code. There simply is
no standard for CSV
files. If it
19, 2013 2:21:30 PM
Subject: [Spacewalk-devel] [PATCH] Make CSV Separator Character Configurable
Hey,
here is a small feature patch that allows users to choose semicolon
(;) as an
alternative to comma (,) for the delimiter in all downloadable CSV
files that
we generate from the webapp
Hey,
here is a small feature patch that allows users to choose semicolon (;) as an
alternative to comma (,) for the delimiter in all downloadable CSV files that
we generate from the webapp. This seems to be helpful for importing those files
into MS Excel for example.
Unfortunately we had to hack
I don't necessarily have a problem with the idea, but I will comment
that CSVs are by definition Comma Separated Value files. Excel and
every other spreadsheet in the world should have an option to import
from comma-separated lists. If we do want to change the delimiter then
we should call it
