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* Alignment Regexp Should Recognize Currencies
@ 2011-09-09 15:01 Daniel E. Doherty
  2011-10-22 10:43 ` Bastien
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Daniel E. Doherty @ 2011-09-09 15:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
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All,

I noticed that the regular expression for recognizing what columns are
numeric in a table for purposes of right-aligning does not pick up
dollar values with commas.

For example, $23,821,415.18 would be treated as "text" and left-aligned,
which I don't believe is what one would expect.

It can be fixed by customizing the variable org-table-number-regexp,
like so:

^\([<>]?\(\$ *\)?[-+^.,0-9]*[0-9][-+^.0-9eEdDx()%:]*\| ... \)$
         ^^^^^^^^     ^
Adding the underlined parts.

My question is should this not be the default, perhaps with the Euro
symbol and other likely currency symbols added in?

Regards,
-- 


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Daniel E. Doherty

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men.
          --- William Allingham (Donegal, Ireland)

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