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Idea #149: Possibility to select separator for tokes imported from CSV

bug This idea was marked as implemented the 24 October 10. Available starting 1.91.
Written by puohis the 7 May 10 at 14:47. Related project: 1.x all. Status: Implemented
Rationale
In Finland and in many other countries other than US use semicolon (;) as a list separator and LimeSurvey can only use comma (,) as list separator (US style) for CSV files.
Would be nice to be able to select which list separator to use, because Windows and Excel are so dummy that you can't select the separator when you are saving file from Excel to CSV. You can change the separator by setting it to Windows locale settings, but that affects all programs.


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Selected solution (#2): Configurable in import dialog
Written by c_schmitz the 24 Oct 10 at 02:35.
Easiest would be the option to choose the separator in the import dialog
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Solution #1: Put the selection of the CSV separator to config.php
Written by puohis the 7 May 10 at 14:47.
Easiest could be to put the selection of the CSV separator to config.php.


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jjmartinez wrote on the 10 May 10 at 18:57
totally agree, it is very interesting

Shnoulle wrote on the 26 May 10 at 13:41
csv is Comma Separated Value :

see rfc : http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180#section-2

No reason to use another separator.

Mazi (Administrator) wrote on the 21 Jul 10 at 00:07
Should be implemented in the upcoming 1.91 version, see http://limesurvey.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/limesurvey?view=revision&revision= 8934


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