Double Colon "::" in First Column Confuses CSV

[jeetsukumaran]

Given a file double colon characters in the first field, e.g.

col1::col1cont,col2,col3a::col3b::col3c,col4
col1::col1cont,col2,col3a::col3b::col3c,col4

I would expect to see:

col1::col1cont|col2|col3a::col3bcol3c|col4
col1::col1cont|col2|col3a::col3bcol3c|col4

However, this plugin produces:

 col1| | col1cont,col2,col3a| | col3b| | col3c,col4
 col1| | col1cont,col2,col3a| | col3b| | col3c,col4
 col1| | col1cont,col2,col3a| | col3b| | col3c,col4
 col1| | col1cont,col2,col3a| | col3b| | col3c,col4

It seems to interpret the colon as field delimiters and ignores the comma.

Same if there tabs in the file. In more complex files, it gets really confused, respecting some commas/tabs as field delimiters and ignoring others.

[chrisbra]

I think this happens, because the plugin is trying to guess the default delimiter. And : is also checked and it occurs more often than the comma, so the plugin uses this.

Use

:let g:csv_default_delim=','

to specify the default delimiter.

[jeetsukumaran]

Is it possible to restrict the default delimiters (e.g., only check for ',' and '\t')?

[chrisbra]

I don't think this is currently possible.