I know there is a problem in excel 2002, that with saving as a CSV excel uses
always the US-Setting as regional settings (not using your choice for the
seperator). If I open a *.csv with excel 2002 it uses the regional settings
for the separator. So you have only one chance (microsoft workaround): Change
your separator to the US-style (","). In my VBA application I want to check
this with the following code:

list_sep = Application.International(xlListSeparator)

to ask for the separator. But with an english WindowsXP with an english
XL2002 I always receive an ";" also with an "," as separator in the regional
settings. Any ideas?

IF you're using xl2002 or newer, you could also use the LOCAL argument
in OpenText method.





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Thomas wrote :

I know there is a problem in excel 2002, that with saving as a CSV
excel uses always the US-Setting as regional settings (not using your
choice for the seperator). If I open a *.csv with excel 2002 it uses
the regional settings for the separator. So you have only one chance
(microsoft workaround): Change your separator to the US-style (",").
In my VBA application I want to check this with the following code:

list_sep = Application.International(xlListSeparator)

to ask for the separator. But with an english WindowsXP with an
english XL2002 I always receive an ";" also with an "," as separator
in the regional settings. Any ideas?

in xl2002 and later
Look also in Tools=Options=International Tab.

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"Thomas" wrote in message
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I know there is a problem in excel 2002, that with saving as a CSV excel
uses
always the US-Setting as regional settings (not using your choice for the
seperator). If I open a *.csv with excel 2002 it uses the regional
settings
for the separator. So you have only one chance (microsoft workaround):
Change
your separator to the US-style (","). In my VBA application I want to
check
this with the following code:

list_sep = Application.International(xlListSeparator)

to ask for the separator. But with an english WindowsXP with an english
XL2002 I always receive an ";" also with an "," as separator in the
regional
settings. Any ideas?

Dear Tom, there is no field for the list seperator in the International Tab.
But this not my problem. I only want to know why I read a ";" with the
xllistseparator when I have changed it in the XP-regional settings from ";"
to ",". My regional options are "German (Germnay) and the default list
separator in German is ";". But I have changed it via customize to "," so
IMHO xllistseparator should deliver me a ",". You dont think so?