[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #3283: Relative path support bug for delimited text provider

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#3283: Relative path support bug for delimited text provider
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   Reporter:  ccrook                                     |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  bug                                        |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  critical: causes crash or data corruption  |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0
  Component:  Project Loading / Saving                   |            Version:  Trunk        
   Keywords:  relative path delimited text provider      |   Platform_version:  XP           
   Platform:  Windows                                    |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                                          |  
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Changes (by ccrook):

  * type:  patch => bug


Comment:

 Bother!  Wishful thinking on my part that ? is not valid (plus working on
 a less enlightened operating system by non-choice).

 This does need fixing still though, if we have regular expression
 delimiters for the delimited text provider, as they are very likely to
 include "\" characters which will get corrupted by the relative path
 manipulations.

 As you say, ideally this would be handled by the provider, though that is
 a much bigger change.  Another short term option (ugly though) would be to
 add some specific code to the QgsProject relative path manipulations for
 the delimited text provider, similar to what is there now for other
 providers.

 I've changed the ticket from patch to bug.  Any thoughts as to where to
 from here.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3283#comment:2>
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