[CWB] [ cwb-Feature Requests-3159448 ] CQPweb: csv as well as tab-delimited download formats

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Feature Requests item #3159448, was opened at 2011-01-16 22:26
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Category: CQPweb
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Andrew Hardie (andrewhardie)
Assigned to: Andrew Hardie (andrewhardie)
Summary: CQPweb: csv as well as tab-delimited download formats

Initial Comment:
This is easy to add as a single option on the "concordance download" page.

For other files it's trickier because they are generated from single menu commands rather than forms with options. Perhaps, for these, it could be a user-level setting "Generate tab-delimited or CSV files by default? (NB, unless you know what you are doing, you want tab-delimited)." The concordance download would then follow this user-setting UNLESS the user specifies otherwise on the download-settings page.

In terms of implementation: the concordance download module needs a full rewrite anyway to support field-data-view and XML visualisations. So adding in CSV support here can be done at the same time. For the other files it should be as simple as saying 

if ($whateversetting) $line = tabs_to_csv($line);

(touch wood!)

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