[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 73, Issue 26

[Chris Reigrut]

True, but you can also use other separators (tab, space, bar). 
> From: Jan Steinman <Jan at Bytesmiths.com>
>   
>> From: Chris Reigrut <chris at reigrut.net>
>>
>> Another slightly easier option is to use the SimpleTable extension
>> (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleTable) to display a CSV
>> export.
>>     
> Except it doesn't do escaped field delimiters.
>
> If you don't have control over your application's CSV output, you  
> probably cannot use SimpleTable. Apple Numbers comes to mind... just  
> spent a couple hours convincing myself that SimpleTables is not useful  
> with the fixed-format CSV output from Apple Numbers. For example, most  
> columns with dollar-formatted amounts of 1,000 or more will cause an  
> unwanted column split.
>
> <snip>

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