PR: Add Whitespace option in the import wizard #4583
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This PR fixes #4581 by adding continuous whitespace as an option to the column separator section of the import wizard.
Let me know if this needs a test, and I'll write one.
Currently the data import wizard doesn't play nicely with text data with multiple spaces as delimiters(or maybe I don't play nicely with the data importer ;-). This is common in fixed width data sets like this:
Putting a
' '
(a space) in a the 'other' text box gives this:When it could give this:
It looks like this: