Comments on: Export CSV with Any Delimiter

By: R

Sat, 21 May 2011 22:48:36 +0000

Standard MS BS. Put in 10,000 useless features and botch the 10 good ones. Thanks for the tip. You’ve saved me the time from having to write a VBA function (really – that’s what others are doing – writing code to get basic functionality out of MS apps).

By: GCon

GCon — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:29:28 +0000

Thanks a million TONS!!!
You are the champ… As a consultant it save me hours..

-GCon

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:47:02 +0000

We had this come up at work and I managed to sort it out using the Regional Setting and the | symbol as the delimiter. But we’re unable to keep the change to the regional setting….after rebooting it has changed back to the default comma list seperator. Anyone know why? And how to resolve it?

By: John

John — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:42:34 +0000

Awsome, thank you for this tip.

By: Siman Boffin

Siman Boffin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:20:43 +0000

Great tip, and it allowed me to do what I wanted, but it then had some very undesirable side-effects with MS Access – the reading of SQL expressions where commas are used, the commas are substitued with the new list seperator-character (in my case a | pipe), whence Jet cannot then read the SQL and a syntax error arises both when you try to run or write queries.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:57:48 +0000

I discovered this tip through a vendor last year, it works nicely with Excel. But want you to know what I just experience last week. Changing from comma to pipe int he regional settings screws the pooch on Access expressions.

You will get a variety of error and weirdness. Switching back to comma in the regional settings corrected the Access issues.

So now, I will have to switch regional settings to pipe when I need for the Excel pipe csv exports I do and back to comma when I need to use Access.

Thought I would share, because this was very frustrating until i figured out the issue.

Bad dev by MS, to allow virtually unlimited import delimiter options, but nothing on export.

~ Matt

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:01:10 +0000

Thank you. Your tip was exactly what I needed and my problem is solved.

By: Adam (NZ)

Adam (NZ) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:27:54 +0000

Unbelievable!!! You saved me *HOURS* of frustration. Excel is such a crock of poo … but I’m forced by my clients to use it. Changing a *system* default to get a simple export option to work is sort of typical for Microsoft.

Many thanks for sharing this little gem :-)

By: Neha

Neha — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:19:40 +0000

Hey,

Thanks for publishing this great tip!! Saved me a lot of time.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:03:48 +0000

Great tip; thanks very much. Wish I had known about this one years ago!