Description
In most European countries (and elsewhere) the comma is used a decimal delimiter. At the same time the dot is used as a thousands separator. I.e. you see typically numbers in the following form (especially for currency values) :
5.840,72
5.860,72
4.593,58
5.335,72
5.981,53
If you export such numbers from Excel to a CSV file, this exact format is retained. If that CSV file is read by CSV.jl with delim = ','
, the values are not recognised as numbers (but as Strings) and you have to manually replace the separators and convert all data to numbers. As this is such a common use case, it is really annoying.
Therefore CSV.jl should act more "intelligent" in this case (like similar CSV-packages in other programming languages do) and recognise these values as numbers, if delim = ','
is used.