Package: miller
Version: 6.4.0-1
Thank you very much for maintaining miller.
I like, use and respect it.
The main reason I'm writing is to report a
circumstance where miller
ignores an empty row of data and
moves all subsequent rows up.
I don't want to over-react, but I'm worried that
shifting data might lead downstream applications
to misinterpret it.
Here's a small example that elicits the behavior:
$ echo -e "a,b\n1,2\n\n5,6" | mlr --csv cut -f a
At least on my computer, it responded with
a
1
5
I expected to see
a
1
5
The guy maintaining debian's package, Stephen
Kitts, seems to think it used to work with version
5.x.
At least for me, both versions
6.2.0-1 and
6.4.0-1
of miller ignored the blank row, both
with and
without
"--ragged".
Feel free to contact me with any questions or
concerns.
Kind regards,
Kingsley
PS: Normally I'd report bugs with Debian's "reportbug"
command line utility, but at the moment, at least
mine is crashing with the following python error:
AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'Mapping'
So I'm trying the instructions for sending bug
reports via e-mail at
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
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