What gives Apple, I can't open a CVS file!?

So I download a CVS file from my online banking and go to open it with my new version of numbers, and the formating is out and the cell format for currency have not been preserved.
It was a simple matter to correct, a couple of highlighted columns and clicks, but Numbers 2.3 opened the file without the above issues, as did MS Excel. This is my first disapointment with the new suite , I really like the newer versions of pages and Keynotes, but numbers is much poorer. I expect better from Apple and hope for improvements soon. Until then I am glad I have version 2.3.

I do not know about how Numbers handles auto-formatting imported text, so cannot speak to that (I don't recall importing any plain text files into Numbers at least).
It was the comment about "..formating is out and the cell format for currency have not been preserved.." that I was referring to.  There simply is no formatting at all to be preserved in a plain text cvs file, so whatever one sees in any app upon opening it is some form of auto-formatting by that app.
Excel is notorious for trying to anticipate numeric formats and I personally hate it when opening a comma separated or tab delimited plain text file - I often have data with alpha-numeric identifiers in one column, and Excel always wants to convert some of those as dates so I always have to be very careful to consciously force it to treat those columns as plain text.

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