If you insert tab characters into the output data stream, you can generate a file that Excel can import. You don't have to write code to add tab characters to this file; MySQL inserts them ...

I would very much like to get this data into a MySQL database intact rather than replacing the characters with their non-accented equivalents. Here's where I'm at.<BR><BR>My MySQL DB is set up for ...

Use the Excel file as an ODBC data source (connection string info here), and your MySQL database as the destination (using their ODBC connector). What OS is your process running on? If Windows ...