editCSVonline
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Objections
Downloaded CSV contains extra trailing commas for empty rows and columns, unlike Excel
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I tried this. When I download a csv, I get a lot of comas. Excel automatically ignores the last empty rows and columns. Also, the file use LF, but the users of window expect…
gus_massa on HN
Uses LF line endings instead of the CR/LF Windows expects
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I tried this. When I download a csv, I get a lot of comas. Excel automatically ignores the last empty rows and columns. Also, the file use LF, but the users of window expect…
gus_massa on HN
Unclear whether quoted commas inside cells are handled
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I tried this. When I download a csv, I get a lot of comas. Excel automatically ignores the last empty rows and columns. Also, the file use LF, but the users of window expect…
gus_massa on HNHappy to receive some feedback. It does not ignore empty cols/rows. I am not sure if it handles quotes commas. Will definitely look at both issues and the CR/LF issue, thanks for…
robbiejs on HN
CSV has many incompatible variants and locale-dependent delimiters
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There are like a million of variants of CSV. They have the same problem than regular expressions or markdown. Each implementation adds a new trick, or feature or special case,…
gus_massa on HN
Requests
Support tab-delimited and locale-specific CSV export
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There are like a million of variants of CSV. They have the same problem than regular expressions or markdown. Each implementation adds a new trick, or feature or special case,…
gus_massa on HN
Handle empty rows and columns on export like Excel
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I tried this. When I download a csv, I get a lot of comas. Excel automatically ignores the last empty rows and columns. Also, the file use LF, but the users of window expect…
gus_massa on HN
Fix CR/LF line endings
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Happy to receive some feedback. It does not ignore empty cols/rows. I am not sure if it handles quotes commas. Will definitely look at both issues and the CR/LF issue, thanks for…
robbiejs on HN
Add an Advanced Save option for export format
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When is programming ever easy? The app uses PapaParse which is a JS lib for parsing/converting CSV to JSON and vice versa. I believe it has many settings built-in, tab-vs-comma…
robbiejs on HN
Questions
Does it handle quoted commas inside cells?
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I tried this. When I download a csv, I get a lot of comas. Excel automatically ignores the last empty rows and columns. Also, the file use LF, but the users of window expect…
gus_massa on HN
Alternatives named
Excel
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There are like a million of variants of CSV. They have the same problem than regular expressions or markdown. Each implementation adds a new trick, or feature or special case,…
gus_massa on HN
Google Sheets
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Hello HN, I’m Robbert, the creator of editCSVonline.com. editCSVonline is a free web app for editing CSV files online in a spreadsheet-like matter. It uses two Javascript…
robbiejs on HN