Re: [gdal-dev] source csv delimiters
The slightly pedantic answer to that is surely that if it not comma separated, it is not a CSV file! As far as I know - that is the approach that GDAL takes! It is easy enough to preprocess the file. As the GDAL docs say : "Many variations of textual input are sometimes called Comma Separated Value files, including files without commas, but fixed column widths, those using tabs as separators or those with other auxiliary data defining field types or structure. This driver does not attempt to support all such files, but instead to support simple .csv files that can be auto-recognised. Scripts or other mechanisms can generally be used to convert other variations into a form that is compatible with the OGR CSV driver." On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 19:08, Travis Kirstine wrote: > Is there a way to specify the delimiters when reading a source CSV file. > The file I received uses a carrot ^ value. > ___ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
Re: [gdal-dev] source csv delimiters
By the documentation: “CSV files have one line for each feature (record) in the layer (table). The attribute field values are separated by commas. At least two fields per line must be present. Lines may be terminated by a DOS (CR/LF) or Unix (LF) style line terminators. Each record should have the same number of fields. The driver will also accept a semicolon, a tabulation or a space character as field separator . This autodetection will work only if there’s no other potential separator on the first line of the CSV file. Otherwise it will default to comma as separator.” and also: ” This driver does not attempt to support all such files, but instead to support simple .csv files that can be auto-recognised. Scripts or other mechanisms can generally be used to convert other variations into a form that is compatible with the OGR CSV driver.” I guess that it is easiest to convert your separator into comma or semicolon and hope that they do not appear in the text. Otherwise you may need to add some double quotes as well. -Jukka Rahkonen- Lähettäjä: gdal-dev Puolesta Travis Kirstine Lähetetty: torstai 1. syyskuuta 2022 21.07 Vastaanottaja: gdal dev Aihe: [gdal-dev] source csv delimiters Is there a way to specify the delimiters when reading a source CSV file. The file I received uses a carrot ^ value. ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
