The convention for specifying alpha data vs numeric data is actually to precede the data with a single quote, not to surround it with double quotes. As far as tab delimited data that includes tabs, since this isn't supported in cells anyway it's not a problem.
Tony Gravagno, Nebula R&D TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com Michael Doyle wrote: > The convention, as I understand it, for handling embedded > commas in of csv data is to wrap each datum in double > quotes. This cheerfully introduces the problem of > embedded double quotes... > > TAB-delimited files do avoid this situation, but bank on > your not having tabs in your data. I am not aware of any > conventional method for dealing with tab-embedded > tab-delimited data. ... ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
