Re: text mode columns strip leading "+"?

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

On Fri, 2006-22-09 at 09:13 +0200, Uri David Akavia wrote:
> I agree that there ought to be a "Completely No interpretation" option
> somewhere in the Text import dialog.

"ought to be"? Select text formatting for the columns you want to be
preserved.

Andreas

> For example, I'm a biologist which deals with Bioinformatic info.
> Some genes have a symbol (or ID) that can be interpreted by Gnumeric,
> for example Sep-06. An option to have this strictly be text (and/or
> automagically adding the ') would be very useful, especially since I
> may deal with files that have thousands of lines - adding the ' by a
> script before import may cause problems with other programs that
> process these files (even if Gnumeric will export without the ', I
> might need to reprocess the original files).

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Andreas J. Guelzow
Pyrenean Shepherds