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authorhttp://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ <http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/@web>2010-03-31 02:07:52 +0000
committerJoey Hess <joey@finch.kitenet.net>2010-03-31 02:07:52 +0000
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they do work, with the right syntax (C backslash escapes aren't interpreted)
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@@ -4,3 +4,17 @@ Table directive should support tab-delimited data, especially important since th
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"""]]
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+> 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]]