https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155946
Bug ID: 155946
Summary: Guess separator for the text import dialog
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Calc
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
When we paste multi-line text, the Text Import dialog springs up. At the
moment, it offers us a default choice of text field separator - separate by
Tab.
But if we are already parsing the text to look for newlines - why not also look
for common separators as well?
* If the line has no tabs, definitely don't offer tabs as the default
* Ditto for spaces and comments
* Out of the remaining possible separators - apply some simple heuristic for
the choice, e.g. most commonly appearing except for at start and end of line.
The specific heuristic is a matter for bikeshedding, but even "first separator
encountered" is better than what we have now.
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