Opening .dat (tab delimited file) in Excel, save as .xls

Question

I am trying to open a .dat file in Excel, which is tab delimited, and then have it save out as a .xls file.

So far, I can read in the file and save it as the .xls fi

Answer 1

How about using FileHelpers ?

I have used this approach a lot, and find it a super nice library.

It handles delimited and fixed length files, and you can write back to Excel using the ExcelStorage class.