https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148544

--- Comment #8 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
"Remove all whitespace" is definitely not a good pre-defined option. If someone
finds them often in need of such, it indicates they face some ill-prepared
sources. But generally, why not also introduce "remove all characters A to H"?
and also "all numbers 3 to 7"?

Import filter has an option to trim leading/trailing spaces - see option 11 in
[1]. It may be useful to have in the UI. But not anything more special. For the
infinite number of special cases, there are ways to pre-process the data, or
post-process it (functions, macros, extensions, external scripts running on
exported data...). It is not reasonable to try to build a "universal paste
plain text" tool that would be able to do just anything any person on Earth may
ever want to do with their data. Same for other UI places (like menu item).

[1]
https://help.libreoffice.org/7.6/en-US/text/shared/guide/csv_params.html?DbPAR=SHARED#bm_id181634740978601

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