[Tutor] converting tab-delimited text files to csv

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Sat Jan 27 04:40:24 CET 2007


Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> csv is comma-separated values, right?
> you should be able to just do a string replace of tabs -> commas on each 
> line in the new file...
> or is the csv format more complicated than that?

Yes, it is more complicated than that because the data itself may 
contain commas.

Kent



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