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Exporting CSV with a separator other than comma

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Is it posible to change the deliminator (field separator character) for the export to CSV operation?

ShowSize uses the List Separator set up in Windows Control Panel’s Regional Settings. To change that, please click on Control Panel–Change Display Language (Vista) or Regional Settings in XP. Go to the Formats page and click Customize. There you will see the box for List Separator character. Just replace “,” by some other character like ~ or #. You can even put a tab there but not directly. Start notepad, enter a tab and then copy and paste it.

Once you change the above, please stop and restart ShowSize. It will now use the new deliminator for all export CSV operations.

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