Re: tabular is not handling "" escapes

[Ivan Raikov]

Hi Matt,

Thank you for using tabular and for reporting this issue. This was
indeed a bug in the code that handles escaped quotes. I have fixed it
and have made a new release (1.2). Let me know if you run into any
other issues. Best regards,

-Ivan

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:14 PM Matt Welland <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> It is common in csv to escape double quotes with double quotes. This does not 
> work in tabular and I was unable to figure out any other mechanism. Replacing 
> the first " with \ did not work and neither did using single quotes around 
> the string. Is there a built in mechanism? The csv files in question come 
> from Microsoft Excel but I tested with a csv from Gnumeric and see the same 
> problem.
>
> cat testing.csv
> Junk,"Joe  ""Super"" Duper Guy",zsssy
> "More Junk",1,2
>
> ../portit pp testing.csv
>
> Error: (list->string) bad argument type - not a character: (#\")
>
> Call history:
>
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?
> utf8-srfi-14.scm:101: iset#iset-contains?   <--
>
> Thanks.
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