[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1633: Unable to display shapefile attribute table due to pipe characters in dbf field

[GRASS GIS]

#1633: Unable to display shapefile attribute table due to pipe characters in dbf
field
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  Reporter:  richardc     |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
      Type:  defect       |      Status:  reopened                 
  Priority:  critical     |   Milestone:  6.4.3                    
 Component:  wxGUI        |     Version:  svn-releasebranch64      
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  database, separator      
  Platform:  Unspecified  |         Cpu:  Unspecified              
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Comment(by hamish):

 Replying to [comment:12 hamish]:
 > or could the python csv library help? It's a similar tricky quoting
 > problem for reading csv when the string can contain a comma.
 >  http://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html

 I couldn't remember the link for what I was looking for then, but I just
 ran across it.. using Perl to parse the text (naturally), not Python.

  source:grass-addons/tools/csv_dequote.pl


 Hamish

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