[GRASS5] [bug #2488] (grass) GRASS 5.7 WISH - improve string reading ability in g.parser

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 17 03:15:32 EDT 2004


> > this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2488
> > Subject: GRASS 5.7 WISH - improve string reading ability in g.parser
..
> > g.parser has difficulties parsing strings with spaces in them. If
> > you enter a string with spaces, it treats each word as a separate,
> > illegal entry for that variable.
> 
> I can't reproduce this behaviour with 5.3, and g.parser itself is
> unchanged in 5.7 (although G_parser() has some changes).


I believe this will be the long standing problem in the TclTk menus,
which strips away all quotes from input fields.
Never found a solution to that, AFAIK.


Does it work as expected from the command line?



Hamish




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