[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 38088] Import csv defaults

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38088

Eike Rathke <erack at redhat.com> changed:

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         AssignedTo|libreoffice-bugs at lists.free |erack at redhat.com
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--- Comment #8 from Eike Rathke <erack at redhat.com> 2012-04-04 08:48:31 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> The approach on the bug cited in the previous comment is simply to auto-detect
> the separator, which is probably possible and definitely the best option.

Auto-detection is doomed to fail in many situations, consider the
following data:

This is one field; but it continues here, and here, as the field separator is a
TAB

However, what we can do is to initially preselect the separators comma,
tab and semicolon, and not space.

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