Opening semicolon delimited CSV file

Question

How does one open a semicolon delimited CSV file with VBA in Excel 2000?

Sample data

An ID;TEST20090222
A Name;Firstname Surname
A D         


        

Answer 1

Re Any ideas?

If you want to fix a file for others using excel add this on the first line of the file without the quotes followed by a linebreak: "sep=;”

An easy way to manually open stupid files is to rename the extension to .txt or .htm then from excel use File - Open.

From VBA I recommend looking up the method in MSDN and manually specifying every parameter, my experience was that this eliminated most regional issues.