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Hi everyone, i was wondering how hard it was to output to a csv spreadsheet file. My program currently outputs to textfile but i wanted to make it a bit nice by putting it in a spreadsheet. Ive been having a look round and i cnt seem to find many resources to have a look at the see how this can be done, is it a really difficult task? Can anyone point me in the direction of sources to research?
thank you
sorryy again for double post, i think i could have cracked it. CSV files seem to be really easilly formatted so i think il write it all to a text file making sure its formmatted correctly then save it a .csv! It may not be pretty but it shud work!
.....hopefully!
Yep, that's how it works.
Changing the extension of a file, if that's what you mean, doesn't do anything. In your C++ program you can output to "table.csv" as well as "table.txt". The only thing that matters is what you put into the files.
If you read about Comma-separated values you'll see that it is mostly very easy, except for escaping commas in data by putting the whole field in quotes, and escaping quotes with double quotes.