csv to excel or a delimiter in save statement

[sriramab]

Hi

I get many requests to be able to save to excel file. I know csv can be imported to excel, but sometimes when saving csv and storing a list into csv gives conflict with comma separation with list items.

May be easier introduce a delimiter to the save statement as it is in the csv read operator? So if i specify a delimiter of my choice say ; instead of , then the problem with lists and lists of lists can be resolved.

thank you Srirama

[AlexisDrogoul]

Hi, instead of adding more and more facets to the already bloated save statement, you might want to motivate @gama-platform/core (GAMA developers) to develop the 'flushBuffer()' method in GamaCSVFile so that all the existing infrastructure for reading can be reused for writing... :)

[AlexisDrogoul]

Tracked under #1362.

[AlexisDrogoul]

Reopening this issue for the next round of development on GAMA 2.0

[AlexisDrogoul]

In GAMA 1.9.2, the separator can now be set as a preference, enabling it to be set for a model with gama.pref_csv_separator <- ';' for instance. I think this answers the request !