Report bug (and patch) with conditional preprocessing and scan

[ikiwiki] / doc / bugs / Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn

Table directive should support tab-delimited data, especially important since this is the format you will get if copy/pasting from an HTML table or spreadsheet (Gnumeric, OO Calc, Excel). Test case which fails:

[[!table format=dsv delimiter="\t" data="""
1       2
2       4
"""]]

> They do work, but C-style backslash escapes aren't recognised,
> so the syntax `delimiter="\t"` (as in your test case) looks
> for the literal string `\t`. Replacing `\t` with a literal
> tab character makes it work - here's a test (I changed the data
> to make the table layout more obvious):
>
> [[!table format=dsv delimiter="       " data="""
left    2
2       right
alpha   beta
"""]]
>
> So, I think this can be considered [[not_a_bug|done]]? --[[smcv]]

>> I've clarified the documentation. --[[smcv]]