R1:f9336e56940f
R1:f9336e56940f
Mangle cells that look a little bit like formulas in CSV files
Summary:
Fixes T12800. See that task for discussion. When a cell in a CSV begins with "=", "+", "-", or "@", mangle the content to discourage Excel from executing it.
This is clumsy, but we support other formats (e.g., JSON) which preserve the data faithfully and you should probably be using JSON if you're going to do anything programmatic with it.
We could add two formats or a checkbox or a warning or something but cells with these symbols…
Summary:
Fixes T12800. See that task for discussion. When a cell in a CSV begins with "=", "+", "-", or "@", mangle the content to discourage Excel from executing it.
This is clumsy, but we support other formats (e.g., JSON) which preserve the data faithfully and you should probably be using JSON if you're going to do anything programmatic with it.
We could add two formats or a checkbox or a warning or something but cells with these symbols…
Repository: R1 hydra
Commit Date: Jan 31 2018