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Re:Excel Labs, a Microsoft Garage Project by bambax on Friday May 26, 2023 @02:01PM (#36087625)
It may be automatable if you enclose the values in double quotes and specify that double quotes mark text (which is the default I think).
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Re:Excel Labs, a Microsoft Garage Project by Tagbert on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:33PM (#36106053)
Sure, if you have control over the source, but that is not always the case. CSV is very loosely specified and there are large variations in implementations.
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