Re: COPY formatting

I wrote:

> Fernando Nasser wrote:
>
>>> [snip re multiline CSV fields]
>>>
>>> I have never seen such a beast,
>>
>>
>>
>> Export from a spreadsheet where people have formated the cell with 
>> the address on it.
>>
>
> Well, I just tried with OpenOffice on my RH9 box, and it translated 
> the line breaks in the cell into spaces in the CSV. When I replaced 
> them with line breaks in a text editor and reloaded it treated them as 
> separate rows.
>
> I don't have a Windows box handy on which I can test Excel's behaviour.
>

Clearly my experience is out of date - I just found a web ref to Excel 
doing just this. Oh, well, it doesn't seem to me an insurmountable problem.

cheers

andrew