Read random CSVs like spreadsheet programs, just curious if it's already possible

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Herkules97
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Read random CSVs like spreadsheet programs, just curious if it's already possible

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So I suddenly became curious if EBV could read CSVs like LibreOffice Calc can. I tried, but columns are just the ones I already use.
I was less lazy this time and actually searched for it, at least for titles and found the below post but it's not for random CSVs and was never given a final answer.
viewtopic.php?t=13821

It seems the only obstacle to reading random CSVs is that the columns aren't custom loaded for that CSV load?
As in if I load a CSV, if columns were to be made based on the CSV itself for just that load it would be possible to read it.
Maybe also the row number column is missing, that could be one that EBV doesn't have at all and maybe comes from the spreadsheet programs themselves. Though that is a miniscule obstacle, at least I haven't had a need for sorting the row numbers themselves..Or line numbers, whatever it's called.

I already have LibreOffice Calc installed and use it, this is just curiosity if it's already possible and I just have to change some settings.
It wouldn't work for all CSVs, I have CSVs that have a row or two near the bottom that need to be frozen to know what the data in the middle is.
HWInfo exports for sensor logging does that, there is one column at the top that is duplicated at the bottom but the bottom has an extra column that says what component you're actually looking at.
I think Calc can freeze any row and also move them around so it works there. Hence why I am only asking for existing features, making EBV more spreadsheet-capable would take dev time from everything else and I think the to-do list is quite long already IIRC. Though I did check on it some months ago, not recently.
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Re: Read random CSVs like spreadsheet programs, just curious if it's already possible

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Everything is not a CSV viewer.
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Re: Read random CSVs like spreadsheet programs, just curious if it's already possible

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void wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 1:07 am Everything is not a CSV viewer.
Alright
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Re: Read random CSVs like spreadsheet programs, just curious if it's already possible

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I will consider a separate tool to search/view CSV files.
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Re: Read random CSVs like spreadsheet programs, just curious if it's already possible

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void wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 12:39 am I will consider a separate tool to search/view CSV files.
You probably shouldn't, I just wanted to know if EBV already could because whenever I exit LibreOffice Calc the system lags hard for a few seconds and I wanted to avoid that for typical CSV reading as most CSVs I want to read don't have the sort of system that HWInfo's exports do.

Granted I don't know how complex it would really be, EBV is already a csv-adjacent program. Maybe most of the code is already in place from having made EBV itself. I suppose it could always be added to the todo list, but it should probably be on the bottom considering there are already proper csv programs.

Plenty of things with EBV is unique to EBV and those should take priority as you won't get that stuff anywhere else..Or at least not in the same nice way as EBV.
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Re: Read random CSVs like spreadsheet programs, just curious if it's already possible

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For general CSV editing I use since years CSVedit
It has all sorts of CSV content editing,
https://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/csved/index.html
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