Invisible wrote:

>>> I did notice that Excel apparently had no difficulty with the date
>>> column - or indeed any other column for that matter. So maybe that would
>>> work...
>> 
>> If all you have is Haskell, every problem starts looking like an erm...
>> that self-functor (or whatever) thingy.
> 
> Well, it *did* solve the problem, didn't it? :-P

Haha yes, granted, a solution that works is what you want. :)
 
> I could have spent more time fiddling with Access to coax it into
> working, or I should do what I did: produce a solution that works right
> now.

Exactly!
 
> Now, if I knew a lot about Access and very little about Haskell, the
> most efficient solution might have been different... ;-)

Probably, though as another poster said, the first thing I'd have tried is 
"piping" the file through Excel.

-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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