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From: "William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com>
To: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recognize comma separated text as table?
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:40:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41c818190709251640k60e59a8ar9b85a34949dd3b64@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uabrafvga.fsf@gmail.com>

On 9/25/07, Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been using org mode tables where possible and I frequently
> receive data as csv, is there any any org-table function to transform
> the csv function to org tables?
>

You could use org-table-import after converting all commas to tabs
with query-replace (or sed, or whatever). Only problem would be if
there were commas in quoted strings....

Cheers

Will

-- 

  Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-25 18:31 recognize comma separated text as table? Sivaram Neelakantan
2007-09-25 23:40 ` William Henney [this message]
2007-09-26 10:55   ` Bastien
2007-09-26 15:24 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-26 16:57   ` Sivaram Neelakantan

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