Re: text mode columns strip leading "+"?

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

On Thu, 2006-21-09 at 16:44 +0200, Thomas Mellman wrote:
> Jody Goldberg wrote: 

> > Put a leading single quote to avoid interpreting them as an
> > expression.
> >
> >     '+12345
> >
> >   
>
>
> Yes, I can do that.  Somebody pointed that out. My phone won't take
> that when I want to ship it back, however.  I'll have to write
> something in perl to fix it up first.

If you export it there will not be any ' in front of the plus. In fact
the ' will not show in gnumeric either, it just indicates for entry
purposes only that it is a string!

Andreas
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Andreas J. Guelzow
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