CSV spec and the failure that is MSDN

Ben Rubinstein benr_mc at cogapp.com
Sun Dec 5 18:08:51 EST 2004


At 13:43 03/12/2004 -0800, Richard Gaskin wrote:

>Anyone know where I can find the official spec for the CSV formats used by
>Micro$oft Access, Micro$oft Excel, and the the spec used by the rest of
>the world?

This isn't exactly an answer to the question you asked (sorry) - but at
least for Access (and possibly Excel) could you bypass CSV and use ODBC to
retrieve the data more directly?  This might be more certain, and more
convenient for your users.
 
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