Export csv

[Brian K. White]

> So that looks like one way to handle this.  The
> advantage of the .slk file over the other delimited
> files is that Excel will automatically read them
> without going into the wizard - just like it
> automatically reads .csv files.

And of course, the slk format includes fomatting metada that is simple 
enough that you can generate it from filepro or create a seperate header 
file once manually and have your routine prepend it to your output every 
time. I'm not sure exactly how much formatting power it offers, though. I 
know Howie uses it for at least some things like making large fields display 
in wide columns. If it also allows data typing, treating $00.01, 00:01, 
00/01/01, 0.01000 appropriately, that would be pretty useful. I don't export 
for humans very often so I haven't played with it myself.

But these days I'm guessing xml addresses all that and more in a universal 
way and obsoletes the various proprietary file formats.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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