Hi Francois,

thanks for the explanation.  I have checked in a modified version which does
what you proposal and also allows the user to call `C-c |' with a triple prefix
arg.  In that case, the command will prompt the user for a regular expression
that will be used.

Useful, thank you!

- Carsten

On 3.9.2013, at 12:20, francois@avalenn.eu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I made this patch to make easier conversion to
> org-table from csv-like text with arbitrary separator.
> 
> ---
> lisp/org-table.el |    2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/org-table.el b/lisp/org-table.el
> index c7e7eb8..c8c2462 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-table.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-table.el
> @@ -575,6 +575,8 @@ nil      When nil, the command tries to be smart and figure out the
> 		 (if (< separator 1)
> 		     (user-error "Number of spaces in separator must be >= 1")
> 		   (format "^ *\\| *\t *\\| \\{%d,\\}" separator)))
> +		((stringp separator)
> +		   (format "^ *\\|%s" separator))
> 		(t (error "This should not happen"))))
>       (while (re-search-forward re end t)
> 	(replace-match "| " t t)))
> -- 
> 1.7.9
> 
> 
>