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From: "William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: recognize comma separated text as table?
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:40:37 -0500
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To: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
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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

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