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Subject: Re: bug#22597: [25.0.90.1] org-table-import docu
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:16:35 +0100
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On 08.02.2016 21:51, Rasmus wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Thanks for your report.
>
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
>> saying: The file is assumed to be tab-separated
>>
>> While internally org-table-convert-region is used receiving optional
>> argument SEPARATOR:
>>
>> \(4)      Use the comma as a field separator
>> \(16)     Use a TAB as field separator
>>
>> ;;;
>>
>> Thus docu should mention the comma as possible separator.
> Isn't it covered by the following line?
>
> regexp   When a regular expression, use it to match the separator

Which version you are checking against?
Here it org-table-import docu continues:


;;;

Such files can be produced by most
spreadsheet and database applications.  If no tabs (at least one per line)
are found, lines will be split on whitespace into fields.

;;;

The initial sentence is just wrong, as TAB is only one thing tried - 
there are a lot more.
See docu of org-table-convert-region for details.