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.AndreasSent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message --------From: John Denker via gnumeric-list
<[email protected]> Date: 2020-10-04 20:23 (GMT-07:00) To:
gnumeric-list <[email protected]> Subject: to csv or not to csv In
another forum Morten Welinder commented:> The first rule of csv files is
"don't use csv files".That scares me. In just one of my directories, I just
now countedtwo dozen .csv files created in the last 24 hours. A total of
12megabytes today, just in this one directory. There are others.My
professional life depends on .csv files that I get from varioussources. 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/orperl, and then import it again.If I'm
not supposed to use .csv, what am I supposed to do? This is avery serious,
non-rhetorical question. Constructive suggestions wouldbe welcome.I have
considered reading and writing .gnumeric xml files, but that'snot so easy.I
have considered using the gnumeric introspection features, but theylack
documentation. And for months now I haven't been able to evencompile those
features, so they remain turned off entirely.Seriously, folks, what am I
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