Genuinely off topic, but I know there are some experts here!

I've got an application where a simple database is kept using Excel. I
have a web form where people enter data that will then be added to the
Excel spreadsheet as another row. This is basic data. Additional columns
are filled in by the person keeping track of the data. I COULD do
something with MySql, but right now stuff is manually entered in Excel, so
I thought I'd build upon that.

I currently have a script that emails the form data as a pipe delimited
string. This can then be imported in to a row in Excel. It's not
super-elegant, but it seems to work so far. One problem, however, is line
wraps in the email. It appears the wrap is done on the receive end.
SquirrelMail wraps the lines when displaying the email, but when I
download the mail, the wrap is not there. So, depending on the user's
email client, it may or may not be possible to just copy and paste out of
the email.

Does anyone know of a better way to send an email of data that can just be
copied and pasted in to an Excel row? Maybe XML or something?

THANKS!

Harold


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