[GRASS-dev] g.mlist sep= or fs= ?

[Chemin, Yann (IWMI)]

+1 for separator=
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From: grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Markus Neteler [neteler at osgeo.org]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 1:39 PM
To: GRASS developers list
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] g.mlist sep= or fs= ?

Hi,

me and some of my course participants (GeoSTAT 2012) stumbled over
the change of sep= to fs= in GRASS 7.

While ...

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Huidae Cho <wrote:
>> When I first wrote the original script, I also thought about fs=.  But,
>> you're right, there are no fields to separate, and that's why it's been
>> separator=.
>
> ok, reverted.
>
> Hamish

it has become again fs=...
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/html70_user/g.mlist.html

In a quick poll in my course the people (being R savvy) all voted for
separator=, also to keep consistency with R! (and GRASS 6 btw).

I would strongly suggest to change all fs= in GRASS 7 (several modules)
to separator= before it propagates more.

Bonus: no script breakage from GRASS 6 to 7.

Markus
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