Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-07 Thread Jaap Keuter
Hi, On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Ulf Lamping wrote: Hi List! There seems to be some confusion about the csv format in general, and I guess about our export implementation as well. Therefore I've added a Wiki page (http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/CSVExport) where information can be collected

[Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Andreas Moroder
Hello, maybe this is not the right mailing list, but I don't like to post to the developers list as non developer. Actually when wireshark creates .csv export files it puts the , as separator between the field. On european PC the , is the decimal separator and programs like access cannot

Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Joerg Mayer
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:47:49PM +0100, Jaap Keuter wrote: I'm sorry but your barking up the wrong tree here. If this is true then go ask Bill to have access read COMMA SEPERATED VALUE aka .csv files regardless of locale. I don't think so: If we print the character that is used to separate

Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Stephen Fisher
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:27:26PM +0100, Joerg Mayer wrote: I don't think so: If we print the character that is used to separate the fields inside a field, then we'll either need to allow users to change the separator or we'll need to surround the whole value by , because no importing app

Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Joerg Mayer
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:28:37AM -0800, Stephen Fisher wrote: How about we add an option for tab separated columns? Maybe. One question I'd like to resolve first though: How do spreadsheets (calc, excel, whatever) handle that case - maybe there is some sort of standard that would allow us to

Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Guy Harris
Joerg Mayer wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:47:49PM +0100, Jaap Keuter wrote: I'm sorry but your barking up the wrong tree here. If this is true then go ask Bill to have access read COMMA SEPERATED VALUE aka .csv files regardless of locale. I don't think so: If we print the character that

Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Kadner, Uwe [CCC-OT_IT]
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joerg Mayer Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 20:35 To: Community support list for Wireshark Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:28:37AM -0800, Stephen Fisher wrote

Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Guy Harris
On Feb 6, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Kadner, Uwe [CCC-OT_IT] wrote: Excel in its default expects to see a delimited file, separated by [TAB]. But, to be honest, I think one of the best alternatives would be to add an option where the user can select what character to use as the delimiter. How

Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Kadner, Uwe [CCC-OT_IT]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guy Harris Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 22:03 To: Community support list for Wireshark Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export On Feb 6, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Kadner, Uwe

Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Luis Ontanon
Ack On 2/6/07, Joerg Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:47:49PM +0100, Jaap Keuter wrote: I'm sorry but your barking up the wrong tree here. If this is true then go ask Bill to have access read COMMA SEPERATED VALUE aka .csv files regardless of locale. I don't

Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Ulf Lamping
Hi List! There seems to be some confusion about the csv format in general, and I guess about our export implementation as well. Therefore I've added a Wiki page (http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/CSVExport) where information can be collected - please don't add information that you *think*

Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Andreas Moroder
Joerg Mayer schrieb: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:28:37AM -0800, Stephen Fisher wrote: How about we add an option for tab separated columns? Maybe. One question I'd like to resolve first though: How do spreadsheets (calc, excel, whatever) handle that case - maybe there is some sort of

Re: [Wireshark-users] Modification request: csv export

2007-02-06 Thread Andreas Moroder
I understand from the thread that there might be a need to use other characters than TAB or COMMA as delimiters, i.e, the PIPE, the SEMI-COLON or whatever. The best would be to let the user choose one of the non alfanumerical characters except and ' Bye Andreas