From: "Łukasz Stelmach" <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quote the real csv separator
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:45:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zku2mzjn.fsf@dasa3.iem.pw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tykbqd1v.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca
Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:
> Łukasz Stelmach <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl> writes:
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>>> What use case do you have in mind?
[...]
>> My bank lets me download monthly reports as CSV. In fact they let me
>> choose the separator and the default value is the comma. But I choose
>> '|' because then I can open the csv as org file and just do
>>
>> (replace-regexp "^" "|")
>>
>> to get a beautiful org-mode table.
>
> There is an easier org-mode way I think. Just get the comma delimited
> data into your org file, select the region and C-c | to get your table.
>
> If you are inserting an external file with C-x i <file> RET
> then C-x C-x marks the region and C-c | converts it to a table.
Cool :-) It works like charm. I'll have to check how to convert decimal
commas to periods. I still like '|' more for my perl script, though,
because it's enough to split '\|' and not care about quoted commas. But
this is my problem.
OK, I won't insist on keeping the patch but I would like to get a
rationale of :sep parameter in orgtbl-to-generic without a choice of how
to quote it. OR, if you think that CSV should stay as it is then I
suggest such a rewrite:
(defun orgtbl-to-csv (table params)
(orgtbl-to-generic table (org-combine-plists
params
'(:sep "," :fmt org-quote-csv-field))))
to make CSV :sep and and :fmt mandatory (that's how this all have starded).
--
Miłego dnia,
Łukasz Stelmach
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-23 22:56 [PATCH] quote the real csv separator Łukasz Stelmach
2010-10-24 16:26 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-24 16:52 ` Nick Dokos
2010-10-24 19:37 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-25 10:32 ` Stefan Vollmar
2010-10-24 20:49 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-10-25 1:25 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-10-25 8:45 ` Łukasz Stelmach [this message]
2010-10-25 9:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-25 11:59 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-10-25 9:15 ` Sébastien Vauban
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