Tab Delimiting (was Re: Excel Spreadsheets)

HUNH?

Actually, I just uploaded a survey script from another source and it saves 
the results in tab delimited format. O.k., so I have a file called 
survey.log in my cgi-bin and I can look at the results with my ftp program, 
but this survey for someone else. And, she would like to have the results 
in a database (shudder, I'm DB-impaired).

So, I'm finally going to ask -- how does one transfer tab-delimited text 
files into spreadsheets, and in Shelley's case, back again?

Thank you!

Tamara

At 06:32 PM 8/16/00 -0400, Captain F.M. O'Lary wrote:
>Hi Shelley,
>
>!! Aaaah Haaa !!
>
>I have it :-)
>
>Because you say: "The target audience are distributors so I at least want
>to have it viewable in Netscape and MSIE."
>
>I have an idea. Excel will export a space (tab) delimited text file.
>Because you know your audience it should be possible to establish an
>acceptable viewing format via this delimited export ( for instance in a
>worst case scenario, aligned columns of data with no header information to
>identify them). The "audience" should be able to read/print/view it *now
>matter what browser* they were using. Cool. Updating the page would only
>take the few seconds it took to spit out another delimited text file . . .
>cool huh?
>
>HTH,
>Fuzzy.
>
>
>
>At 12:34 PM 8/16/00 -0700, Shelley Watson wrote:
> >Good Day (again!)  :)
> >
> >Well.......I lied.  I ~thought~ I was previewing the spreadsheet
> >in Netscape when actually it was MSIE.  I knew it was too good to
> >be true - Netscape drops the "table lines" and the UPC's are
> >right up next to the product descriptions while in MSIE it shows
> >up perfect (like, duh!)  :)  .  I've put a little note on that
> >the spreadsheets are best viewed in MSIE (sigh) and am going to
> >upload the files for the time being.  I'll have to redo the
> >spreadsheet - will probably do that in 1st Page.  The target
> >audience are distributors so I at least want to have it viewable
> >in Netscape and MSIE.
>__________________________________________________________________
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