https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168639

V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> ---
Doing a \d digit match at word bounds \b (with or without decimal and thousands
separator) as a column separator might be feasible, but IMHO dates are probably
too complicated in general to be able to parse into columns. Although simple
ISO 8601 formats might also be feasible.

But isn't this rather a niche user request?  Seems sed and awk, or perl, or
python provide means to stream convert into a meaningful CSV format, external
to LibreOffice, for import to calc or writer table. And, most sources will
provide export choices to delimit both fields and text strings, suitable for
ingestion without additional formatting.

Other than convenience, no real justification to shoehorn this into the Text
Import dialog as a means to describe complex Field Delimiter(s).

IMHO interesting if a dev has interest to take on the refactoring of our Text
Import dialog to provide delimiter for numbers between word bounds, and maybe
also ISO dates.

Otherwise => WF

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