[GRASS5] v.in.ascii updates

[Michael Barton]

I agree with the changes. I was going to suggest using format=vect (because
it is reading a GRASS vector file), but Radim says verbotten.

Michael
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> From: Daniel Calvelo Aros <dcalvelo at minag.gob.pe>
> Reply-To: <daniel.calvelo at minag.gob.pe>
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:02:48 -0500
> To: grass5 <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] v.in.ascii updates
> 
> From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:49:02 +1300
>> 
>> Debatable updates:
>> 
>>  ? skip any line starting with a '#' in input file.
>>    (could silently ignore data..??)
> 
> Add a flag to turn it off, in case weird #-marked data arises. How hard would
> it be to be able to specify the comment marker as an argument? Better, as a
> regular expression?
> 
>>  ? skip blank lines in input file.
>>    (currently extra newlines at EOF break import of points)
> 
> Maybe add a flag to signal whether:
> 
> 1) An empty line marks EOF (that might be useful to chop data by hand), except
> at the beginning
> 2) Empty lines are ignored
> 3) Empty lines are an error (except prior to EOF)
> 
>>  ? strip "quotes" from both ends of varchar input.
> 
> Shouldn't break anything; quoting-dequoting-overquoting is always tricky, so
> users should be wary of "". Do the same for '', maybe?
> 
>>  ? rename format=standard to format=grass as format=point is default,
>>    so standard mode is non-standard. Confusing! I'll fix any scripts/.
> 
> Agree.
>