[Wtr-general] Excel Or Text File?

[Danny Faught]

Fletch wrote:
> That is what I have at the minute, but I am under pressure to use a Spreadsheet. I thought that the text file was a much better and more simple idea.

A comma-delimited (comma-separated-value / csv) file is a great 
compromise, as was mentioned earlier.  A spreadsheet application can 
read and write it, and it's a text file that's simple to parse in Ruby. 
  You won't get Excel features like functions and macros, but you will 
get a GUI interface for non-technical people to enter flat data.

Your users will need to know that they need to save the files in .csv 
format, not .xls.

-Danny