Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum <at> gmail.com> writes: > > 2012/3/7 Andreas Säger <villeroy <at> t-online.de>: > > Again, it is technically and logically impossible to write a program without > > knowing anything about the input. > > A Tab delimited text file – what more could we want to know? > Some text ↹ More text ↹ More text again ↹ Text again, perhaps ↵ > Another row with text, ↹ and ↵ and so on.
yeah, exactly. Oh, let me add "with a newline after Another row with text". (Or perhaps: a tab delimited file with text in columns. Or maybe: a text file, with columns separated by tabs and records separated by newlines. Or: A CSV file, except with tabs instead of commas... I am a little bit surprised at the level of drama my original specification elicited ...) > The macros could automatically detect how many rows and columns there > are, shouldn't be too difficult. I'd give it a try if I had some time > left. Sorry that I don't at the moment. If you have time at some point, could you point me at the functions you would think of first to do this? I tried to record a macro but all I got was an empty Main function. > Kind regards Likewise! (so refreshing...) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
