Hi Xavier,

thanks for your answer.

You are right, Excel can import csv files directly.

But the normal user would double-click on a csv, as the csv-file has an 
xls-icon under windows systems with excel installed. But this can cause 
problems, especially with our csv. Our csv-file is structured like this: 
01299;Text1;Text2;25;Text3
As you can see, the first column contains numeric data, some  with a leading 0. 
Opening this file in excel would cut the leading 0 in the first row. And that 
would cause problems.

 Importing it using the "import-menu" in excel is allways successfull. 
But that means more work for the user. The user wants just to open the file.

That´s why i asked for converting it with Rev/VBS.

Btw: There are various specifications and implementations for the csv format. 
There´s no real standard. See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180#section-1




Regards,

Matthias

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: OT:converting csv to xls with Rev (09-Jan-2008 14:27)
From:    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Hi Matthias,
> 
> Excel imports csv files directly or tab files (which sql should also 
> export). 
> 
> Learning the cvs for it should not be hard, there's a zillion examples out 
> there. 
> 
> Regards,
> ---------------------=---------------------
> Xavier Bury
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/01/2008 14:08:04:
> 
> To: [email protected]
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