Bug#966142: libreoffice-calc: calc crashes when trying to open a tab-delimited text file

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

tag 966142 + moreinfo

tag 966142 + unreproducible

thanks

Hi,

Am 23.07.20 um 18:57 schrieb Gary Dale:
>    * What led up to the situation?
> I downloaded some tab-delimited reports from a web site to perform a reconcilliation with previous reports. When I tried 
> to open them in calc, the program started to bring up the import dialog then crashed.

If you say crash, any more info? On the console? backtrace?

Can the data be shared? As it might have to do with it? As it works with
a simple example, see below.

>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
> I examined the files and removed header and footer lines that were not part of the table structure. This didn't help.
> Next I tried opening a file that I have opened with calc in the past. It also crashed calc when loading.

And I tried to create new file, tab-separated

--- snip ---

a    b    c    d

1    2    3    4

---- snip ---

and opened it.

Import dialog appears, Calc table created as expected.

Regards,


Rene