Description: My version: Version: 5.1.6.2 Build ID: 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2 CPU Threads: 2; OS Version: Linux 4.4; UI Render: default; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group I have the following CSV plain text file, a few lines from which are: " Agilent Technologies, 114.49 AbbVie, 28.15 AmerisourceBergen, 20.38 Abbott Laboratories, 236.76" There are spaces, tabs, newlines, and COMMAS between the text (company names) and the numbers (P/E ratios). I want to open it in calc with ONLY the comma as delimiter. I open the file in Calc, and select delimiter as ONLY the comma. Calc doesn't split the two fields into separate columns (as it should) instead it puts them in separate rows! Steps to Reproduce: in description above Actual Results: Agilent Technologies 114.49 AbbVie 28.15 AmerisourceBergen 20.38 Abbott Laboratories 236.76 Expected Results: Agilent Technologies|114.49 (in separate column) and SO FORTH Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: [Information automatically included from LibreOffice] Locale: en-US Module: SpreadsheetDocument [Information guessed from browser] OS: Linux (All) OS is 64bit: yes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/63.0.3239.84 Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36
Hello, Thank you for filing the bug. Please send us a sample document, as this makes it easier for us to verify the bug. I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO', so please do change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' once you have attached a document. (Please note that the attachment will be public, remove any sensitive information before attaching it.) How can I eliminate confidential data from a sample document? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/FAQ#How_can_I_eliminate_confidential_data_from_a_sample_document.3F Thank you
Created attachment 141600 [details] Text file containing Text comma tab carriage return and number Hello, Thank you for your response. I've attached the Text file.
I think that file have not a basic csv format, every new line represent a record, and it's no way with the import to solve such matter. There are a lot of results on the web searching for remove new lines in a csv file, searching for 'csv remove new lines'. In my opinion not a bug. Please if you are not agree, reopen it.
Thank you. done.