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What does CSV files stand for??
All I would like to know is what does CSV mean literally and how do you use
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What does CSV files stand for??
Perhaps I could introduce you to 2 useful facilities?
One is Google, and the other is Excel help. -- David Biddulph "TexasDude" wrote in message ... All I would like to know is what does CSV mean literally and how do you use it and do you do it?? -- Thx/Darrell |
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What does CSV files stand for??
It stands for "comma separated values"
Usually a text file with commas between the fields of data -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200793 "TexasDude" wrote: All I would like to know is what does CSV mean literally and how do you use it and do you do it?? -- Thx/Darrell |
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What does CSV files stand for??
In reality, nowadays it should be "character" separated values
(originally it was only commas though) Gary''s Student wrote: It stands for "comma separated values" Usually a text file with commas between the fields of data |
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What does CSV files stand for??
TexasDude -
Another thing or three about CSV files: They are output as plain ASCII text files - you can actually open them up with something like Notepad or Wordpad and look at them and work with them. This has the advantage of making them platform independent. That is, just about any computer operating system has the ability to read a plain ASCII file. So with the ability to read that type of file and knowing that data fields are separated with a particular character (as comma, semi-colon, pipe | or Tab or other) then you have a fairly versatile way of exchanging data between applications and computers. Yes - I do use them or their brother type of file: fixed field length files. Again, these are plain ASCII files with the data fields occupying specific character positions within a record that is usually either 80 or 128 characters long. This works well also, but often at the expense of a lot of wasted space to fill out fields that can be long, but are short in some cases, with blanks to get the proper field positioning within a record. As for how do I use it - one way that it gets used where I work is to transfer data from an on-line timekeeping system into the company's accounting system. Another more generic way to use it might be in this scenario: presume you have a database program and a spreadsheet program. They can't talk directly to one another because they don't know the other's native file format. But both can write and read CSV files. So the CSV file becomes a vehicle for data exchange between the two applications. "Gary''s Student" wrote: It stands for "comma separated values" Usually a text file with commas between the fields of data -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200793 "TexasDude" wrote: All I would like to know is what does CSV mean literally and how do you use it and do you do it?? -- Thx/Darrell |
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