XML Considered Harmful

[Greg Ewing]

On 25/09/21 6:34 am, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> Several hundred genes were recently renamed because Excel was unable to
> read their names as simply strings and insisted on interpreting them as
> something else (e.g. dates).

Another fun one I've come across is interpreting phone numbers
as floating point and writing them out again with exponents...

-- 
Greg