Re: [Gpsbabel-code] WHITESPACE

[Rick R. <ri...@mn...>]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:28:29AM -0500, Alex Mottram wrote:
> "Some Waypoint Name\t30.1208\t-91.5933\tSome Other Text\n"
> 
> I stopped thinking.  There are three different (and valid) whitespaces in that
> line.

...and 8 WHITESPACE separated fields.  There cannot be embedded spaces
in the fields.  In the case of GpsDrive, if you try to name a waypoint
with embedded spaces, it converts them to '_'.  Its a pretty stupid
database schema.

I would define WHITESPACE the same as awk in POSIX mode (i.e. newline
doesn't count as whitespace, but runs of spaces and/or tabs do)

    $ echo -e "foo\t \t \tbar" | awk '{print $2}'
    bar

-Rick

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