XML Considered Harmful
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Sep 24 20:01:10 EDT 2021
On 25/09/21 6:34 am, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> Several hundred genes were recently renamed because Excel was unable to
> read their names as simply strings and insisted on interpreting them as
> something else (e.g. dates).
Another fun one I've come across is interpreting phone numbers
as floating point and writing them out again with exponents...
--
Greg
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