[fpc-pascal] SDFDataset multiline support: request for a look at patch+test, issue 17285

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Jul 22 14:01:13 CEST 2011



On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Reinier Olislagers wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd really like to use fields that contain carriage returns and line
> feeds in SDFDataset, so I've written a patch for SDFDataset as well as a
> test.
>
> I'd appreciate it if someone could look at & hopefully implement
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17285
>
> This will help people that want to have better support for CSV export.
>
> Note: I've seen in some other bug report, mailing list or forum (forget
> where), that some people say SDFDataset shouldn't support line endings
> in fields.
> I've implemented a property called AllowMultiline in the patch; I'd be
> perfectly happy too if it is implemented but the property is not enabled
> by default.
> (Also, the Lazarus book chapter 12.3 describes using SDFDataset for CSV
> files, so we can change either SDFDataset or the book contents ;)

I will look at the patch.

>
> Thanks!
>
> BigChimp
>
> PS: Shameless plug: Now working on fcl-db export to Unicode XML with XSD
> support for better interoperability with .Net (ADO.NET) and Microsoft
> Access...

I will be glad to see your contribution :-)

Michael.



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