[gdal-dev] tab delimited to shapefile

[Kralidis,Tom [Ontario]]

I think you can also use the SEPARATOR layer creation option, per
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html? 

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> Bruce,
> If you're on a linux system with perl:
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> perl -pi -e 's/\t/,/g' filename
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> is a perl one-liner that should replace all of the tabs with 
> commas in the file, working on the file in place. I've used 
> similar commands on text files up to 379 GB in size, although 
> it does take a while for files that size.
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> It does alter the file in place, which can be dangerous. It's 
> best to test on a sample of the file :
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> head filename> testfile ( take the first 10 lines of the file 
> and write it to a separate file) perl -pi -e 's/\t/,/' testfile
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> If the testfile works fine, use it on the main file.
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> Doug
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> Is there any way to use ogr2ogr to convert tab-delimited data 
> such as the geoname dot org files into shapefiles short of 
> converting all tabs to commas?
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> I created a VRT file that works with CSV files but I can not 
> find any way to convert tab-delimited data.
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