[gdal-dev] Quete_string_fields creation option for CSV

Rahkonen Jukka (MML) jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi
Thu Apr 19 04:27:55 PDT 2018


Even Rouault wrote:
Re: [gdal-dev] Quete_string_fields creation option for CSV
 
> Actually I've reworked this to be
 
> STRING_QUOTING=IF_NEEDED/IF_AMBIGUOUS/ALWAYS (Starting with GDAL 2.3): whether to double-quote strings. IF_AMBIGUOUS means that string values that look like numbers will be quoted (it also implies IF_NEEDED). Defaults to IF_AMBIGUOUS (behaviour in older versions was IF_NEEDED)
 
Feels like a good set of options and I will probably enjoy IF_AMBIGUOUS myself sooner or later because we have IDs with leading zeroes here and there.

-Jukka-


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