RE: to csv or not to csv

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 supposed to do?_______________________________________________gnumeric-list mailing [email protected]://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list

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