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Visidata works with arbitrary separators. I just tried with a CSV separated with ␟ (ASCII unit separator) and it worked just fine.



Excel too?


lolive, VisiData has some Excel support. However, don't expect VisiData to be a full blown editor for Excel files. It can provide a view of the data in an Excel spreadsheet.


I think GP means to ask if Excel can read files with ASCII 29,30,31 separators.


If you have a python installation available, openpyxl[1] is great both for converting to .csv and for packaging .csv outputs as .xlsx (which is really zipped .xml, anyway).

[1] https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html




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