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4 Sep 2024 07:15:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Stupid question time  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 22 Jun 2010 13:22:13
Message: <4c20f145$1@news.povray.org>
>> Excel can *import* text files with all sorts of strange delimiters.
>> However, it seems to be unable to *create* anything except CSV or
>> tab-delimited; there's no option for pipe-delimited.
> 
> Fortunately, that's pretty easy to work around with a scripting 
> language.  Export tab delimited and then use something like awk to 
> replcae the tabs with pipes = job done.

Oh, sure, I'm not disputing that. I'm just wondering where the hell some 
random user who can barely operate Notepad has heard of pipe-delimited 
files from...

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