[REBOL] Re: Editing CSV files...
From: dness:home at: 6-Sep-2001 15:08
Gregg Irwin wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> << ... I have found a few scripts for manipulating CSV files, but so far
> haven't
> spotted anything that lets me `view' and `edit' them. Am I just not looking
> in
> the right place? >>
>
> What about Carl's text-edit script? Would that get you started?
>
Not unless I'm missing `the point' in some big way. Editing CSV files is surely nothing
like
editing text files, even if CSVs are just `made out of text'. The essential idea of CSVs
is, of
course, that the commas separate the values of `variables', and to work on them you want
to present
them in such a way in an extended representation that would be not unlike a `spreadsheet'
although---in
most cases---one deals primarily with text, not numeric values.
Of course, given REBOL, there may be some mystical switch or refinement of text-edit
that I don't
know about or understand...
