[Gdal-dev] MIF/MID problem

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 1/26/06, Todd.Southen at bentley.com <Todd.Southen at bentley.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having problems reading a MID file with OGR.  It appears that it
> doesn't like my data as there are spaces after the commas (even though
> the delimiter is properly set as ", " in the MIF header).  If I change
> the delimiter entry in the MIF to "," from ", " then things work fine.
> Does OGR not like multicharacter delimiters?
>
> For what its worth, these same files load just fine in MapInfo.

Todd,

I don't believe multi-character delimeters are supported.
Could you submit a bug against MITAB about this?  Please
assign it directly to me, since the issue relates in part to
the line parsing.

Best regards,
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