On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 16:03, Matt Cottrell wrote: > Folks, > > I recently had trouble importing a text file into Gnumeric 1.2.13 > thatmight have gone more smoothly if there was an option to set a > userdefined column width. > > The table in question was formated like Table 1 below. This > smallerexample imports corectly with the space delimited option, but > the realtable I was working with had 1325 rows and 1325 columns. I > compiledGnumeric with SHEET_MAX_COLS 8X8x8x8 to get the necessary > columnsbeyond the default 256. > > Importing the 1325 X 1325 table using the space delimited > option,including "see two separators as one" would run to completion, > butinspection of the resulting sheet revealed that many columns > hadsimply been dropped. All the rows were present. I believe to recall that with the current configurable textimport you can import only (some of) the first 4 times 256 columns. This should ideally be unlimited and if limited than restricted to a multiple of SHEET_MAX_COLS. It may also be the case that not all columns were selected for import in that dialog. Andreas -- Andreas J. Guelzow Taliesin Software, Shelties, Pyr Sheps and Shetland Sheep
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