[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] 'where' sql command in d.vect and others

[Glynn Clements]

Seb wrote:

> > I suspect that this is a bug in G_recreate_command().
> 
> > What does "d.save -a" output?
> 
> This returns the following for the 'where' parameter:
> 
> 
> where="str_3='"W Arctic"'"
> 
> 
> exactly as it was entered in the display manager, which wouldn't work from
> the command line or a script because the double quotes (within the single
> quotes) are not escaped.

By "display manager", are you referring to d.m or gis.m? d.m is
essentially obsolete; any non-trivial bugs are unlikely to get fixed.

OTOH, gis.m shouldn't require any additional quoting in most cases (in
a command layer, complex options should be enclosed entirely in
braces, e.g. "d.vect map {where=str_3 = 'W Arctic'}").

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>