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28 Jul 2024 14:22:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Povray reading CSV's?  
From: gregjohn
Date: 4 Feb 2014 14:00:01
Message: <web.52f137b57be82f140d56c170@news.povray.org>
"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> I work with a lot of generated CSV files.  I'm getting tired of all the mouse
> clicks required to import it into Excel, and into an intelligible graph.  I'd
> like to write my own povray file for graphing, perhaps one that is always
> perfect in "readability" no matter what render pixel size you pick.
>
> What's the quickest way of getting a CSV-formatted data file into povray?  (If I
> have to do even a small amount of editing of the CSV by hand, it ruins the
> benefit of the project.)

Oh my, upon seeing a corporate directive to use Apache OpenOffice, I tried to
use Calc to import my CSV.

It interpreted
-3.5308E-07

as
'-3.5308E-07


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