[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 130745] New: FILEOPEN: Calc not honoring import text dialog column type for empty cells

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130745

            Bug ID: 130745
           Summary: FILEOPEN: Calc not honoring import text dialog column
                    type for empty cells
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.3.4.2 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: rscragun at gmail.com

Description:
Calc does not honor the column type selected in the text import dialog/wizard
for empty cells.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Paste the following into a text file and save as csv (indents are not part
of the file and are included only to offset the text from the rest of the
post):
    Column 1, Column 2
    Text 1,1234
    Text 2,1973-07-20
    Text 3,
    Text 4,

2. Open the file with LO Calc (in Windows, right click on the file, select Open
with > LibreOffice)
3. In the "Fields" section of the text import wizard/dialog, select the
top-left box in the sample spreadsheet to select all rows and columns.
4. For "Column type", select "Text".
5. Hit "OK".
6. Check the formats of the cells.

Actual Results:
All cells with contents will be text type. All cells without contents will be
numeric type.

Expected Results:
All cells will be text type. This is particularly obvious for the empty cells
in columns that have other non-empty cells. The fact that the wizard says that
you are setting "column type" suggests that this is a column-specific setting
rather than a cell-with-contents-specific setting.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
Version: 6.3.4.2 (x64)
Build ID: 60da17e045e08f1793c57c00ba83cdfce946d0aa
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; 
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

Example of why this matters:
The only reason I use Calc rather than Excel is that loading a CSV with dates
into Calc without messing them up is much easier. But if empty cells get a
different format from what is expected, there will be errors when I later type
dates into those cells.

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