[Gdal-dev] MIF/MID problem

[Todd.Southen at bentley.com]

Done, here's the link: http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1266


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From: fwarmerdam at gmail.com [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:11 PM
To: Todd Southen - Consultant
Cc: gdal-dev at lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [Gdal-dev] MIF/MID problem

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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