[gdal-dev] How to concatenate with newlines by using OGR SQL?

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

Sorry, I forgot to tell that I am on Windows.  “$’\n’” looks so gurutic that I feel jealous. I hope I will never need to teach anybody to use it at work, though ☺

-Jukka-

Chaitanya kumar wrote:

Jukka,

You can try to pass the newline character directly from the command line. With bash, you can use $'\n'. In your case it will be like this:

ogr2ogr -f gpx test.gpx finland.osm.pbf
-sql "select name,CONCAT(addr_street,"$'\n'",addr_housenumber)
as 'desc' from points where amenity='toilets'"
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Jukka Rahkonen <jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi<mailto:jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>> wrote:
Hi,

I was playing with the new OSM driver and tried to transfer some
POI features into my GPS. It goes well by using GPX format in
between. However, I have a little problem. My GPS supports multiline
descriptions but I do not know how to insert newlines into the
output of ogr2ogr. The following command adds a space character
between addr_street and addr_housenumber, but is is somehow possible
to insert newline instead?

ogr2ogr -f gpx test.gpx finland.osm.pbf
-sql "select name,CONCAT(addr_street,' ',addr_housenumber)
as 'desc' from points where amenity='toilets'"

I made two blind trials as
CONCAT(addr_street,\n,addr_housenumber) which gives parsing error and
CONCAT(addr_street,'\n',addr_housenumber) which adds string \n literally.

-Jukka Rahkonen-


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