Re: Comma seperated viles?

["Robert H. Perry" <rperry4 earthlink net>]

Tino Meinen wrote:

> I found this string in gnumeric:
> msgid "Comma separated files (CSV)"
>
> Does the V stand for files or for variable? or something else?
>
> Tino
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Hi Tino,

Found this in FOLDOC:


 comma separated values

</file format 
<http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/contents/fileformat.html>/> (CSV) A 
file format <http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?file+format> 
used as a portable representation of a database 
<http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?database>. Each line is 
one entry or record and the fields in a record are separated by comma 
<http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?comma>s. Commas may be 
followed by arbitrary space and/or tab characters which are ignored. If 
field includes a comma, the whole field must be surrounded with double 
quote <http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?double+quote>s.

Bob