From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recognize comma separated text as table?
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:55:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ir5xn1as.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41c818190709251640k60e59a8ar9b85a34949dd3b64@mail.gmail.com> (William Henney's message of "Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:40:37 -0500")
"William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com> writes:
> You could use org-table-import after converting all commas to tabs
> with query-replace (or sed, or whatever). Only problem would be if
> there were commas in quoted strings....
Stupid heuristic would compute the average number of commas per line,
and the average number of characters per quoted string. But doesn't csv
exporters already escape commas when they are part of a cell? Maybe they
should.
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-26 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-25 18:31 recognize comma separated text as table? Sivaram Neelakantan
2007-09-25 23:40 ` William Henney
2007-09-26 10:55 ` Bastien [this message]
2007-09-26 15:24 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-26 16:57 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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