Subject Re: importing csv file From Gaetano D. <gaetanoddRemoveThis@andThatHotmail.com> Date Thu, 3 Jun 2021 18:22:56 +1000 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 3/06/2021 17:32, Mervyn Bick wrote: > Microsoft calls tab delimited files but which are actually tab > separated files indeed, that is how Excel copies a selection to the clipboard too (tab separated with CR/LF at the end of each line) - as you might recall, I used regex to replace the tabs with  commas when we worked on that Excel conversion tool with Marc's clpbrd.cc file), it's blazing fast. I am yet to finalize the reverse conversion. -- Gaetano.