[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2640: newline in attribute table record

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#2640: newline in attribute table record
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 Reporter:  annakrat                             |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect                               |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  7.0.1                    
Component:  Database                             |     Version:  svn-releasebranch70      
 Keywords:  v.db.select, dbmgr, attribute table  |    Platform:  All                      
      Cpu:  Unspecified                          |  
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 I attached a testing shapefile where some of the records have a newline.
 Then v.db.select gives:

 {{{
 cat|LABEL|LABEL2
 1|Newline at the end
 |xx
 2|Newline
 In the middle|xx
 3|No newline here|xx
 }}}

 This can't be parsed correctly and as a result Attribute manager fails
 with inconsistent number of attributes. It's not just problem of GUI, this
 will affect any parsing in a user script for example. One possibility
 would be to use different format, for example JSON.

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