Re: [Gretl-users] Input of csv data - does the German version work as intended?
Am 02.02.2016 um 22:19 schrieb Alan G Isaac:
Once again, a problem for data analysis arises when
someone insists that at **COMMA** separated values
file should be allowed to use commas for some other purpose.
Stick to the RFC and these problems go away:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
Interestingly, the text at this link contains this:
'Implementors should "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what
you accept from others" (RFC 793 [8]) when processing CSV files."'
I think this is what gretl is doing.
But there is some truth to what you're saying, especially mentioning
programming languages. That's why gretl's language hansl has always kept
the decimal point as mandatory (despite some controversy there as well).
cheers,
sven