From: Tak Kunihiro <homeros.misasa@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: 37242@debbugs.gnu.org, tkk@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp
Subject: bug#37242: orgtbl-to-tsv drops empty cell
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:20:39 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1v9njn1vc.fsf@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k14ks5kw.fsf@gnu.org> (Bastien's message of "Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:43:59 +0100")
Dear Bastien,
>> What orgtbl-to-tsv/csv does is to convert delimiters. In my opinion,
>> to drop out empty lines is overwork.
>
> Empty lines in csv/tsv files (when they are not part of a
> double-quoted field) are ignored or should be.
>
> For example, the Python CSV parser ignores them.
>
> So Org does the right thing at not reprensenting them at all IMHO.
>
>> This comes from orgtbl-to-generic. I cannot tell the behavior from
>> docstring. If this is not a bug, I feel like this behavior is random
>> one.
>
> Yes, I don't consider this a bug. If you want to improve the
> documentation, can you submit a patch?
I tried to go though orgtbl-to-generic, but I cannot find out how the
line was dropped. I'm okay, please close the bug.
-Tak
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-04 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-31 7:31 bug#37242: orgtbl-to-tsv drops empty cell Tak Kunihiro
2020-02-17 7:31 ` Bastien
2020-02-18 7:13 ` Tak Kunihiro
2020-02-18 7:43 ` Bastien
2020-03-04 23:20 ` Tak Kunihiro [this message]
2020-05-22 13:36 ` Bastien
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