CSV export / import

[Davide DB]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Willem Ferguson
<willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:

> So the biggest problem is defining a user friendly interface that allows
> rapid entry of the dive data and which allows for an export that Subsurface
> can recognise cross-platform (almost surely spreadsheet software). This is
> the part that will require the largest amount of planning.

I thought that for import, the compiling part is done outside Subsurface.
For the export wizard it just permit selection of fields to be
exported and delimiter char.


> Currently LibreOffice and Excel should produce the same CSV files if a
> string delimiter is not used and a comma is used for a field delimiter. But
> comma-delimited files are a pain to fine-tune by hand, for instance if
> Subsurface finds some formatting problem on line 22 of the import file.

Comma could be dangerous with localization. I remember when I helped
Miika to decode reefnet sensus data files: they use comma as field
delimiter but numbers are localized based on OS settings so in my
Italian Windows the comma "," is the decimal point delimiter. An
example of poor design.

Bye

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Davide
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