#125: quote around char attributes in ascii files may generate problems with
v.in.ascii
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Reporter: ct529 |
Owner: [email protected]
Type: defect |
Status: new
Priority: major |
Milestone: 6.3.0
Component: default |
Version: 6.2.3
Keywords: quotes, inverted commas, v.in.ascii, text file, csv file, import |
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Supposed you have an ASCII file (comma separated), where the first column
is a character column, and is automatically generated by either R,
openoffice calc, kspread, MS W Escle, or any gis package using text
export. The data in each cell will be surrounded by quotes (") aka
inverted commas.
If you try to load the file using the v.in.ascii command, it returns the
error "ERROR: x column is not of number type" whatever the type of the x
column.
To fix the problem, you have to remove the quotes around the values in the
first column. Quotes around values in other columns do not seem to be
important.
It should be fixed because all of the above packages correctly export
character column with quotes around the values.
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