[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc macro to open tab delimited data file?

Am 08.03.2012 01:48, fork wrote:
> Andreas Säger<villeroy<at>  t-online.de>  writes:
>
> > Am 07.03.2012 22:03, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > > A Tab delimited text file – what more could we want to know?
> >
> > 4 different lines of tab delimited text each with 4 identical values:
> >
> > 2012/03/08      1,213.59        text    7-8
> > "2012-03-08"  "1,213.59"    "text"        "7-8"
> > 8.März12        01213,59        text    7-8
> > 03/08/2012      $1213.59        "text"        "7-8"
> > [...] to be continued with dozends of variants
>
> Ahh -- I think the reason behind some of the confusion is becoming clearer... I
> want to manipulate *dumb, uninterpreted* text.  So "03/08/2012" would not be the
> same thing as "2012-03-08", since both cases would be just a bunch of
> meaningless characters, but different meaningless characters.

Then you do not want any spreadsheet at all. At least there is no 
technical reason to use this dinosaur software for plain text. This is 
covered by a tiny but very powerful text editor for text tables and 
Windows: http://csved.sjfrancke.nl/


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