[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 124899] Exporting CSV with separator " & " exports with no separator

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124899

V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement

--- Comment #7 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
Oh, sorry. Just realized you actually were asking for a "multi-character"
delimiter.

No, unfortunately, we do not implement a multicharacter delimiter, just a
single character--and in your example LO was doing as told and using the first
character you enter in the Filter Settings dialog--so " " (U+0020) delimited.

I guess there is an issue here is that the filter dialog "allows" you to enter
more than 1 character in the field--but it is parsed down to just the first
character. 

The filter dialog was made persistent (OOo issue 3687), but can find no
discussion of implementing a multicharacter delimiter from the OOo era or for
LibreOffice. IMHO such an enhancement is =>WF, otherwise this is NAB.

Personally I would just use the "&" delimiter, and then flush resulting
delimited file through sed to add the leading and trailing spaces.

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