doug pyatt wrote: > What I hate is the people that think they know everything - Telling > someone that wants to learn and possibly improve the software, the > question wasn't phrased just right is just wrong. I think a Google > Search for Tab Deliminated info will result in 444,000 English hits. > Enough for me to know that Tab Deliminated is the Right Choice of > words for the question.
I don't know where you are aiming at, but Eikes answer was basically correct. Calc has a filter for "delimited" files (and BTW the delimiter is not restricted to tabs). And there is no secure way to detect wether a text file is a "delimited" one or not, that's the point Eike wanted to make. OTOH It is also correct that there are some files where it is obvious that they are "delimited" (those are the files you are talking about), but a filter implementation needs to detect a file reliably and it shouldn't work only 80% correct. So you should read Eikes answer as "there is no file type you can name tab delimited like you can name a type a Word, Excel or rtf file". The latter types can be detected by a simple lookup, the first can't, they need the help of the user that wants to load the file (f.e. by assigning an identifiable file extension to the file). So it is not possible to implement a general solution like Lars wanted. I agree that Eikes answer sounded a little bit rude, but this question was asked just too often and so Eikes nerves might have been stressed a little bit. :-) OOo2.0 will have two "features" that will help you in this situation, though both are bound to file extensions (or on Linux/Solaris: MediaTypes). As I already mentoined in another mail in this thread, the Calc text filter will be used for xls-names text files automatically. You can also extend this filter for other extensions to your liking. Moreover you can register Calc (not just OOo!) as *the* application in your desktop system for any file type you want (you can find an announcement of this feature in the archives of the feature announce list). Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
