John Mcleod wrote:
> Well,
> As you suggested below, it was a problem with encoding.
> 
>> I'm betting your problem is one of encodings.  Do you have some 
>> non-ASCII data in the spreadsheet?  If that data is not UTF-8, it could 
>> be tripping up FasterCSV's parser.
> 
> What I did was I took the file and opened it in 'TextEdit' a Mac version 
> of MS-Notepad.

TextEdit isn't a Mac version of Notepad.  It's a text editor that comes 
with the OS, but the similarities end there.

>  Saved the file in UTF-8 and everything took off.
> I'm going to try the same task in MS-Notepad (when I fire up the Windows 
> VM).

It may not work.  Notepad is ridiculously underpowered compared to 
TextEdit.

> 
> Thank you again for all your support.
> 
> John

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