[chirp_users] Chirp won't read CSV files correctly

[Chris Nordstrom]

Right, well as I've said, when you create generic CSV file from Chirp 
and go look at it, it still contains all the empty fields and the extra 
commas at the end of the row.  So....

Regards, Chris W7CFN



On 2/27/2016 2:31 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
>
> On Feb 27, 2016 13:48, "Chris Nordstrom" <cfnordstrom at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cfnordstrom at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > I am not aware of these bugs in Excel that were mentioned. After 
> creating my CSV file, I used a raw file viewer and did not see any 
> extra characters or missing characters.  I am using Excel now to edit 
> the CSV files and they import fine.  Is it true that there has to be a 
> default value in rToneFreq?  And what about the errors I get when 
> there are columns with header text but no data in the column?  Could 
> this be caused by Excel?
>
> Yes, you need to provide appropriate defaults if you're not editing 
> with Chirp (when you edit a CSV with Chirp, it will fill in all the 
> defaults for you). Here's a quote from the documentation I linked earlier:
>
> "Field values must be in the original format and one of the accepted 
> values for the column type."
>
> Excel is a generic spreadsheet program. If you want to use it to edit 
> Chirp CSV files, you will need to handle the data validation yourself 
> to ensure it stays in a format compatible with Chirp.
>
> Tom KD7LXL
>
>
>
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