Re: More than you ever wanted to know about csv files (Re: to csv or not to csv)

[Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>]

Fair enough.  Use .gnumeric, .xlsx, or .ods.  Any of these attach semantics
to the data they carry.  They are equally good for this purpose and can be
converted from one to the other.

If you were working with Excel, the recommendation would be .xlsx only
and if you were working with LO it would be .xlsx or .ods.

With respect to the configurable text importer, that is for use when a specific
text file isn't handled by the automatics.  Basically any text-in-columns type
file should stand a fair chance of being something we can handle.  On the
down side, it's not automatic.


Morten