DOS CR/LF in .MAP and .SYM files

[Peter deVoil]

Hi,

I did this in an earlier version by telling the lexer to ignore "\r"
characters, I'm guessing the 
newer syntax would require adding a line something like
---
<INITIAL>\r                             {}
---
to maplexer.l

Of course, if you use cygwin, it does the translation automatically.
Yours,
PdeV.


"Jim T. Bowen (GAIA Consultants Inc.)" wrote:
> 
> Hi Daniel and others,
> 
> This is a common one (we were nailed by it too when we first began).  I
> like your idea to modify the parser, but I cannot offer much help.  Here
> are some alternate pointers for those interested:
> 
> * use a decent ftp programme that strips/adds CR to LF (most popular
> programmes do this for you)
>   * don't forget...if you zip the files before transferring, your ftp
> prog. will *not* alter the newline characters
> 
> * if you are running SAMBA, remember that text files are *not* modified
> by default
>   * use a text editor like UltraEdit (or equivalent) and convert your
> files once they are on your SAMBA drive or write your files from ArcView
> with only LF (or vice-versa)
> 
> * run a script on your files each time they are transferred
>   * in ksh, run SED (e.g., sed "s/$/`echo -e \\\r`/")  [convert Unix LF
> to CR/LF]
>   * in ksh, run SED (e.g., sed 's/.$//') [convert CR/LF to Unix
> LF...this assumes all lines end in CR/LF]
> 
> I know this is not what you were looking for, but hopefully it may help
> some.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jim
> 
> Daniel Morissette wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any way that the MapServer .MAP and .SYM parser could be
> > modified so that it is not sensitive to the difference between DOS and
> > Unix linefeeds.
> >
> > It looks to me like every new MapServer user goes through the following
> > error message when they try to get MapServer running the first time:
> >
> >     msLoadSymbolFile(): Unknown identifier. ( ):(0)
> > or
> >     msLoadMap(): Unknown identifier. ( ):(5)
> >
> > and most of the time, it's because MapServer is running on Unix and the
> > .MAP or .SYM file contains DOS ^M chars... either because the original
> > file came from Windows, or because a Windows tool was used to extract
> > the archive and then copy the files to Unix.
> >
> > I'm not a flex/bison expert, so I don't know if it's easy to fix...
> > Anyone has ideas?
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Daniel Morissette                       danmo at videotron.ca
> >               http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/
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