[Qgis-user] Fwd: adding a CSV delimited text layer

[Joshua Brooks]

Interesting. Chris sent me a copy, Linux with 2.0.1 was happy to use it as
it was. There were extra unnamed and blank cols and line endings were CR.
On Dec 13, 2013 3:02 AM, "Chris Crook" <ccrook at linz.govt.nz> wrote:

> Hi Marc
>
> The CSV driver has changed and is more rigorous mainly in its handling of
> quoted fields.  So if your CSV file has an umatched quote in the first line
> then it would treat the following lines as a continuation of that.  But
> normally a CSV export from a spreadsheet would not do that.  I'd be very
> interested to see a copy of the first few lines of your CSV file if you are
> prepared to zip it up and send it.
>
> Thanks
> Chris Crook
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> From: Randal Hale [rjhale at northrivergeographic.com]
> Sent: 13 December 2013 03:32
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Fwd: adding a CSV delimited text layer
>
> What if you specified a custom delimiter and used comma? I'm wondering if
> something has changed in your file....
>
> Can you share it? or is it sensitive?
>
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> On 12/12/2013 08:53 AM, Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux wrote:
>
> HI!  first time question.  I am pretty comfortable with QGIS 1.8 but have
> just converted from 1.8 to 2.0.1 and apparently have lost my mind as I
> can't even upload a simple .csv file anymore.  I am using OSX (Maverick).
>  I have created my .csv file using excel in the usual way, by saving it
> from an .xlsx to a .csv as I've done many times in QGIS 1.8.
>
> The file is simple, the first row has the headings
> (DATE,SPECIES,AGE,SEX,GPSX,GPSY,COD) the rest is data but when I'm
> uploading the file QGIS is not reading each line but is treating all data
> as one long line of headings and therefore is not finding any data.
>
> Help!
>
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>
> Marc
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