Nar:

If you want a .CSV file, then using Excel is a pretty terrible way to get there. I've had innumerable problems where people think that Excel is a nice data transport medium. It has a terrible habit of changing your data for you. Instead, use something like Text::CSV.

Even if--after Herculean efforts--you get your file created properly, anyone opening the spreadsheet to look at it could munge it all up as Excel converts the data when it displays. Unless they close without saving, it can break your file.

I shudder at remembering the six month period where the testers *insisted* on using Excel for a data matching job....

/me off to the medicine cabinet to get a few Tylenol. I probably ought to wash it down with a fifth of bourbon.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: HTML entity write error by roboticus
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