comments in bom.ini file says pairs of strings are white-space separated but in truth they should be tab separated

[retiredfeline]

For exaple:

[COLUMN_RENAME]
; A list of columns to be renamed
; Format is: "[ColumName] [NewName]" (white-space separated)

but this is wrong, it requires tab to work. And in fact this is the only way that strings containing spaces can be operated on. The template bom.ini should be edited to not mislead.

[set-soft]

The following path fixes all the similar errors:

diff --git a/kibom/preferences.py b/kibom/preferences.py
index 4045990..f2a11fd 100755
--- a/kibom/preferences.py
+++ b/kibom/preferences.py
@@ -307,8 +307,8 @@ class BomPref:

         cf.add_section(self.SECTION_ALIASES)
         cf.set(self.SECTION_ALIASES, "; A series of values which are considered to be equivalent for the part name")
-        cf.set(self.SECTION_ALIASES, "; Each line represents a list of equivalent component name values separated by white space")
-        cf.set(self.SECTION_ALIASES, "; e.g. 'c c_small cap' will ensure the equivalent capacitor symbols can be grouped together")
+        cf.set(self.SECTION_ALIASES, "; Each line represents a list of equivalent component name values separated by a tab")
+        cf.set(self.SECTION_ALIASES, "; e.g. 'c\tc_small\tcap' will ensure the equivalent capacitor symbols can be grouped together")
         cf.set(self.SECTION_ALIASES, '; Aliases are case-insensitive')

         for a in self.aliases:
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ class BomPref:
         cf.set(self.SECTION_REGINCLUDES, '; A series of regular expressions used to include parts in the BoM')
         cf.set(self.SECTION_REGINCLUDES, '; If there are any regex defined here, only components that match against ANY of them will be included in the BOM')
         cf.set(self.SECTION_REGINCLUDES, '; Column names are case-insensitive')
-        cf.set(self.SECTION_REGINCLUDES, '; Format is: "[ColumName] [Regex]" (white-space separated)')
+        cf.set(self.SECTION_REGINCLUDES, '; Format is: "[ColumName]\t[Regex]" (separated by a tab)')

         for i in self.regIncludes:
             if not len(i) == 2:
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ class BomPref:
         # (#120)
         cf.add_section(self.SECTION_COLUMN_RENAME)
         cf.set(self.SECTION_COLUMN_RENAME, '; A list of columns to be renamed')
-        cf.set(self.SECTION_COLUMN_RENAME, '; Format is: "[ColumName] [NewName]" (white-space separated)')
+        cf.set(self.SECTION_COLUMN_RENAME, '; Format is: "[ColumName]\t[NewName]" (separated by a tab)')

         for k, v in self.colRename.items():
             cf.set(self.SECTION_COLUMN_RENAME, k + "\t" + v)
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ class BomPref:
         cf.set(self.SECTION_REGEXCLUDES, '; A series of regular expressions used to exclude parts from the BoM')
         cf.set(self.SECTION_REGEXCLUDES, '; If a component matches ANY of these, it will be excluded from the BoM')
         cf.set(self.SECTION_REGEXCLUDES, '; Column names are case-insensitive')
-        cf.set(self.SECTION_REGEXCLUDES, '; Format is: "[ColumName] [Regex]" (white-space separated)')
+        cf.set(self.SECTION_REGEXCLUDES, '; Format is: "[ColumName]\t[Regex]" (separated by a tab)')

         for i in self.regExcludes:
             if not len(i) == 2: