Re: Quotes in .csv files

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Adrian Custer wrote:

> you can turn this off on the second page of the export druid,
> after you pick which sheets to export.


Hi Adrian,

I don't think that's what Chuck is looking for: a field value of one,two 
or more likely 12,300.00 still needs to be escaped! and currently there 
is only all or nothing. If space is not the field separator it should 
not cause quoting.

Andreas


> On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 11:20, Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
>
> > My current version of gnumeric (0.70) puts quotes around any field that 
> > has spaces, which is unnecessary and creates extra diffs against the 
> > CVS repository. In fact, extra diffs be created again for those on my 
> > team using Excel, which only uses quotes when they're needed.
> >
> > For example: |one two|three| should be saved as:
> > one two,three
> >
> > not:
> > "one two",three
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know if the current version of gnumeric still does that?



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