From: Caleb Tennis <caleb@...>
Date: 2005-04-06T06:01:37+09:00
Subject: Re: reading/writing Excel formats (or CSV)

> desc      student1   student2   student3  student4
> quiz1      80        92         78        87
> hw1        85        90         81        91
> test1      92        100        88        79
> hw2        100       99         83        100
> final      84        80         77        85
>
> How would I set this up so that the CSV file written by Ruby can be read
> by Excel?

What you have here is perfect.  Excel is pretty flexible - you can delimit
by commas, tabs, spaces, whatever you like.  The above is definitely more
easily readable than comma delimitation, but I think you'll have yourself
an extra mouseclick or two if you do use commas.

decs,student1,student2,student3,student4
quiz1,80,92,78,87
hw1,85,90,81,91
...