disappearing leading plus

[honzajde]

This

echo '+123' | tv

produces:

        tv dim: 0 x 1
        123

This is an issue e.g. with phone numbers (without spaces).

This is ok:

  echo '+44 123' | tv

        tv dim: 0 x 1
        +44 123 

Bug or feature? :)

if this is a feature, I wish it was better documented.

[alexhallam]

Hmm, looks like a case I did not consider. I can add some Regex logic here. I would have to be careful though. I can see that some people would have +/- I’m front of positive or negative numbers. Joys, of inferring types. What do you think would be best to try to match so I capture the problem you are highlighting while allowing people to have positive and negative values? I can do something specific for phone number formats if that is the specific problem here. Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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[honzajde]

I can imagine it's really hard (or straight impossible) to infer correct type (another example might be when having only handful of rows).

First line of thought: give type hints, e.g:

Options could be something like this:

-s --string
-d --digits (integers)
-f --float 

tv -s '"mobile phone","home phone"' -f 'price' -d 'count'

In case of tv formatting rules, the -f and -d don't see, to be needed at all

Maybe -f to avoid sigfig option

And maybe in the future -f11.3 "Big Money" equivalent to printf '%11.3f'