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graphsketcher / GraphSketcher

A fast, simple graph drawing and data plotting app for OS X and iPad.
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Problems pasting data from spreadsheets (tab-separated values) #13

Closed ncrow closed 10 years ago

ncrow commented 10 years ago

I am trying to paste data in from a spreadsheet. Same behavior with either Numbers or Excel.

If I have two columns of data say

1,1 2,2 3,3 4,4 5,7

Graphsketcher will interpret that data when pasted as:

1,11 2,22 3,33 4,44 5,57

dmessent commented 10 years ago

I'm seeing the same thing in Numbers.

When you copy from Numbers, the values are placed on the pasteboard as tab-separated columns of text. It looks like GraphSketcher isn't parsing those columns and instead is interpreting them as a single column of two-digit numbers. When you paste, that column of n two-digit numbers is plotted against the integers 1 through n as described in the documentation.

Hopefully someone can take a look at this and figure out why the tabs are being mangled.