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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..39d57a4fe --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Table directive should support tab-delimited data, especially important since this is the format you will get if copy/pasting from an HTML table or spreadsheet (Gnumeric, OO Calc, Excel). Test case which fails: + +[[!table format=dsv delimiter="\t" data=""" +1 2 +2 4 +"""]] + +> They do work, but C-style backslash escapes aren't recognised, +> so the syntax `delimiter="\t"` (as in your test case) looks +> for the literal string `\t`. Replacing `\t` with a literal +> tab character makes it work - here's a test (I changed the data +> to make the table layout more obvious): +> +> [[!table format=dsv delimiter=" " data=""" +left 2 +2 right +alpha beta +"""]] +> +> So, I think this can be considered [[not_a_bug|done]]? --[[smcv]] + +>> I've clarified the documentation. --[[smcv]] |