Separately if you want to make a simple semicolon-instead-of-comma delimited file from Tinderbox, just take a CSV export template and put a semicolon where the commas were. It’s fine if you are the lucky few all use MS Excel with the same settings in the same locale. It has so many years of accreted hacks to make it backwards compatible, it is anybody’s guess what comes out. The other think I learned from 10 years doing data-transform/workflow work is that friends don’t let friends trust Excel tabular output. Likely someone wrote the script back in the 80s and whilst “no one has complained” the constraint of then don’t exist now. If the data is coming out of some organisational report. A tool like BBEdit will even let you configure the above changes and save them as a transform so you can fix odd formats easily. You now have a safe well-formed CSV file useable in Tinderbox as is. replace all line breaks ( \n) with straight-double-quote+line-break+straight-double-quote.replace all semicolons with straight-double-quote+comma+straight-double-quote.add a straight-double-quote to the end of the last cell.add a straight-double-quote to the front of the first cell.replace all single straight-double-quotes with two such characters (this escapes any such character in a table cell value).If you are sent a semicolon delimited file, using a text editor of choice (I’d use BBEdit)) and in order: Ideally, use properly formatted CSV, obviating the need to for kludge format (as shown above).
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I think the cause is people trying to write un-quoted CSV files, where “10,00” would be a problem, and failing to update their code as locale support and standards improved. The problem comes that simply changing the separator character may uncover other unhandled errors. For the numbers above, both of which use a a comma we would see:īut, I guess the kludged semicolon form looks like: So a value of ‘Test " string "’, is seen encoded as. It doesn’t matter what locale both 1,000.00 and 1.000,00 are compatible with CSV as any value that contains a comma must the enclosed in quotes (and values containing straight double quotes must escape them by doubling. What is easy now, wasn’t so in the late 1980s! I guess it was assumed MS Office would be used to read back the format.
The latter seems to arise from kludges used in early versions of MS Office where tabular export could define one of a range of characters as the delimiter to replace the normal comma or tab. One problem is while there are references/standards for comma-separated-value and tab-separated-values there doesn’t seem a formal description of semicolon delimited. What interests you? What should we discuss?ĭifficulties one faces with csv data when one operates outside an English language environment, and thus the separating sign is usually the semicolon rather than the comma
Maybe it would be possible to show some examples for the use of different view types like chart, treemap, timeline… I would like to see, hear more about the concepts for grouping notes, terms dynamically with action code I love your attribute to linked note approach. Alexandra George, Constructing Intellectual Property.Patterns Of Spatial Hypertext: idioms for the map view.** Pliny Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World Blair, Too Much To Know Even-Azra, Lines Of Thought Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Book Export Templates for Absolute Beginners.Working with tabular data (importing, exporting).Import and Export, Inter-App Workflows, External Scripting Using Prototypes of Prototypes (referred to on ).Approaches To Tinderbox Presentations: lots of quick demos!Īdvanced TInderbox Tools/Techniques, and Recursive Topics.** Moving references from Zotero to Tinderbox Tagging and Tinderbox (August 7, but this is evergreen).
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Feel free to extend the list of possibilities! This is a post that you can edit: simply click the Edit button below. We spoke in the 14 August meetup about planning future topics.
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