Specify the separator

[magoorden]

Currently, I guess, anything that is not a digit or a . is considered to be a column separator. It would be nice to specify what the column separator is for a particular file.

For example, I have a data file that looks like

0	10/05/2021	17:00:00	28.047283641646498	28.229890823364258	0.16600261628627777
1	10/05/2021	17:05:00	27.85280887167062	28.241891860961914	0.16254563629627228
2	10/05/2021	17:10:00	27.988941210653625	28.097787857055664	0.13076160848140717
3	10/05/2021	17:15:00	27.891703825665818	27.795202255249023	0.1424412727355957
....

where the actual columns are separated by the tab character. Right now, the library interprets the tab, /, and : as column separators. So the last column can be retrieved using column index 9, while intuitively (i.e., when you can specify that the tab is the separator) it has column index 5.

[mikucionisaau]

The major issue is that the library is expecting a table with numbers and anything else ruins the formatting.

In principle, the dates and times should be quoted as text strings.

Not sure how to treat the text in columns.