At 13:43 03/12/2004 -0800, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Anyone know where I can find the official spec for the CSV formats used by Micro$oft Access, Micro$oft Excel, and the the spec used by the rest of the world?
As far as I know, there is no official spec. (at least, not publicly available). I looked pretty hard about 6 years ago and couldn't find anything official.
All three differ from one another, and according to some Micro$oft has changed how CSV is implemented in Excel at least once, maybe twice, so it would be good to find historical specs as well.
So far the best I can find is this page: <http://www.lazy8.nu/doc/exportoptions.en.html#standardspecification>
Nice, but doesn't cover the change, nor Access at all, and if from a third party so I have no way to know how current or thorough it is. At least with Micro$oft-published specs I can point customers to the source if they have a problem.
Perhaps useful to you would be http://python.shopinator.com/peps/pep-0305.html
This also doesn't specifically describe Access, but it does have a wider description of the known variations, as well as having a more "authoritative" appearance if you need to quote it customers.
-- Alex.
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