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The issue is that csv is not very well defined. So define your own text file format and use the configurable text importer/exporter on the gnumeric side. Andreas Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message -------- From: John Denker via gnumeric-list <gnumeric-list gnome org> Date: 2020-10-04 20:23 (GMT-07:00) To: gnumeric-list <gnumeric-list gnome org> Subject: to csv or not to csv > The first rule of csv files is "don't use csv files". That scares me. In just one of my directories, I just now counted two dozen .csv files created in the last 24 hours. A total of 12 megabytes today, just in this one directory. There are others. My professional life depends on .csv files that I get from various sources. Data is available to me in that format, and often no other. Very often I need to do calculations that can't be done in a spreadsheet, so I export the data, krunch it using thousands of lines of C++ and/or perl, and then import it again. If I'm not supposed to use .csv, what am I supposed to do? This is a very serious, non-rhetorical question. Constructive suggestions would be welcome. I have considered reading and writing .gnumeric xml files, but that's not so easy. I have considered using the gnumeric introspection features, but they lack documentation. And for months now I haven't been able to even compile those features, so they remain turned off entirely. Seriously, folks, what am I supposed to do? _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list |