[GRASS5] sites: bug in G_sites routines?

[Andreas Lange]

Hi Markus,

without looking at the documentation/source code, i think that this is a
real bug. 
Every character that is not allowed to occur in the data should be
"escaped" somehow and treated that way by the library reading/writing.

cu,

Andreas

Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> finally I found the problem with site lists! :-)
> 
> In my table such a string occured:
> @"BB\CF"
> 
> The character "\" drives the sites lib crazy. After
> changing it to @"BB/CF" my large table is accepted.
> 
> Unfortunately "BB\CF" is German soils terminology (soil types).
> BB/CF is *not* the same as BB\CF, therefore I have to keep
> it. How to convince the sites library to allow "\" character?
> 
> So far I am glad that the sites library manages large tables
> and the new s.in.dbf seem to work.
> 
> It would be very helpful to allow "\" character in a string field.
> 
> Sorry for this confusion,
> 
>  Markus
> 
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