[libreoffice-users] Re: Cell formatting with CSV files in Calc

Jay Lozier wrote
> What are you actually trying to do? It sounds like your trying do 
> something that a database may be better at doing.
I'm just trying to keep some kind of record of my daily expenses. While
there's some hassle involved, LibreOffice provides all the features I need
for that purpose (pivot-tables are most important), so a real RDBMS would be
far too complex for my requirements.

Concerning the file format, CSV files have the huge advantage of being
* a single file,
* small,
* and plain text files. 

(Tom has already pointed out some of that.) Especially the last point is
important, since you can check text files into version control and diff
them. This would require far more efforts with a binary format like ODS
(always (de-)compressing might me scriptable, but that's too cumbersome for
me).

So much for my motivation. :-)

Cheers
berntie

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