[GRASS-user] 'where' sql command in d.vect and others

[Glynn Clements]

Seb wrote:

> > However, the same doesn't work within the display manager with, for
> > instance, d.vect.  In that case, the 'where' parameter ends up within
> > braces in the actual call.
> 
> Some more fiddling led me to find out the correct syntax in display
> manager:
> 
> str_3='"W Arctic"'
> 
> which creates a valid sql query and the map plots correctly.  However,
> this runs into another problem with d.out.file from a display of the
> queried map and says:
> 
> 
> Sorry <Arctic'> is not a valid option
> 
> 
> Could this be a bug?  If the 'where' statement does its job with this
> string, I would have expected d.out.file to work too.

I suspect that this is a bug in G_recreate_command().

What does "d.save -a" output?

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>