[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):

 Hi, attaching proposed patch to fix it by changing the field sep to a
 multi-char string which is highly unlikely to occur naturally. As long as
 we stay with an ascii flat file as the intermediary there will be a finite
 possibility that the fs string could be there in someone's data, but at
 least with the patch the chances of that go to near zero.

 tested on devbr6 + linux, but not Windows.


 Hamish

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