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Started by Egil, April 11, 2017, 10:02:02 AM

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Egil

This question might as well be posted in the IWB section.

Is there a limit for how large a CSV file can be?


Egil
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LarryMc

I'm not aware of any. But if there is one I would guess it would be 32K.
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Egil

Thanks Larry.

The reason I asked was that I tried to open a csv file with Excell and got a warning telling me that the maximum number of rows had been exceeded.
But when I just now tried with Windows WordPad, the file opened whithout problems. The size of the file is 75.4 MB.
So guess the received warning is the result of limits set by the coders of Excell.

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billhsln

CSV's can be any size, your problem was definitely due to Excel limits.  Newer versions of Excel allow for more rows.

65536 is the maximum number of spreadsheet rows supported by Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002 and Excel 2003.Text files that are larger than 65536 rows cannot be imported to these versions of Excel. (Excel 2007, 2010 and 2013 support 1,048,576 rows (220)).

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Egil

Thanks Bill.
My version of Excell is then too old (2003). I was asked by a friend to comment on some of the recorded values in the file. And I was able to do that by using WordPad.
Since the file in question is not mine, there is no need to upgrade...



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Rock Ridge Farm (Larry)

Download open office - it is free and does all the same stuff that the microtrash versions do.
Runs on Windoz, Linux, and Mac (I think).

Larry

Egil

Quote from: Rock Ridge Farm (Larry) on April 11, 2017, 04:06:14 PM
Download open office - it is free and does all the same stuff that the microtrash versions do.
Runs on Windoz, Linux, and Mac (I think).

Larry

Hi Larry,

Tried that yesterday, only to get the same warning I got when using M$ Office....
This is no big deal, the file in question fortunately opened whithout problems in WordPad.


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GWS

Good old Wordpad - a reliable old program.   :)

Sometimes, if you copy some source code and try to paste it into CB (and presumably IWB), you just get one long line of stuff.  Paste it into Wordpad, and it displays correctly - then copy it from there into CB or IWB, and all is well ..  ;D

Other very useful programs, abandoned by the insensitive Microsoft, are Paint (XP version), and Photo Editor (used to come with Word), not to mention File Manager.

Fortunately, I've been able to obtain all of them, and use them regularly. :P

all the best, :)

Graham



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Egil

April 12, 2017, 06:38:45 AM #8 Last Edit: April 12, 2017, 06:40:53 AM by Egil
MS Paint is still in the Windows packages, but now you have to start setup andselect Paint (and any of the other programs that is not included automaticly) to get it installed.

A couple of years ago I discovered another such tool that works much smoother and have more possibilities than Paint.
It is called Pinta:   https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/

You can even use it as a simple photo editor.


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GWS

Thanks Egil - that looks like a useful program ..  :)

Graham
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