"Paste to Clipboard" in "Attribute Dialog/Table" lacks commas

[Sfkeller]

When using "Attribute Dialog/Table?" (with QGIS 1.4) and doing a "Paste to Clipboard" the contents of the paste buffer contains no commas - but it should (it should be CSV)...

wkt_geom  ID  TYPE  NATION  CNTRYNAME LEVEL NAME  CODE  POP_CLASS PROV1NAME DUP_NAME  CONURB  CAPITAL POINT(6.141312 46.204724) 1 Medium City 41  Switzerland 1 Genève     100,001 - 500,000 Genferseeregion Y   N

[lutra]

Actually the separator value is a "tab" and what you obtain is a valid csv formatted file. You can then save your file and choose whatever separator value you want.

[Sfkeller]

Ok, "tab" instead "comma" (as indicated in some documentation). But at least under Windows it's two sometimes on space(s) - still NOT "tab".

[lutra]

Replying to Sfkeller:

Ok, "tab" instead "comma" (as indicated in some documentation). But at least under Windows it's two sometimes on space(s) - still NOT "tab".

It works nicely for me under windows with Open Office Calc. If you use MS Office Excel you should configure it to open the csv files the right way.

If in the documentation is described that the separator field is a comma then please ask in the community mailing list to correct the problem.

[Sfkeller]

Outch, right: My text editor and it's settings (which silently converted tabs to spaces) solved the problem.