Carol Walter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My supervisor has requested that I copy a small database to Excel for
> her to look at. The first time I did it, I used the copy command and
> the data was so dirty that it didn't come in very well. Someone
> suggested that I use a pipe to delimit the data so that the Excel can
> ignore the commas that are imbedded in the data. I tried to do that and
> I'm having trouble with the syntax.
>
> Is there another list where I should bring this kind of query question?
> I have already searched for an answer on the postgres.org site, but
> didn't turn up anything useful for this.
I would use Access, but if you have to use Excel, make sure you do it
via ODBC so you don't have to clean up the data.
J
>
> Thanks,
> Carol
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