Opened 17 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#596 closed Feature Requests (wontfix)
make timezone csv file C/C++ compatible — at Initial Version
Reported by: | nobody | Owned by: | az_sw_dude |
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Milestone: | Component: | date_time | |
Version: | None | Severity: | Problem |
Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
The timezone database file "date_time_zonespec.csv" is used for the boost date/time library, and is nominally intended to be read as a data file, by boost code, and possibly also by Excel or similar software. Because the file consists of quoted Ansi character strings, it could also be treated like an initialization value for a char *str[] string array, and used via an #include. However, since the data lines do not end with a comma, the last field of each line will get compile-time concatenated with the first field of the next line, thus thwarting this usage. I propose that either (1) the file be changed to add a comma at the end of each line, or (2) the file be changed to add an empty "" string as an extra (dummy) field at the end of each line. Method (2) has the advantage of remaining CSV file compatible, while still being a valid list of quoted strings for char *str[] string array. The dummy zero-length string at the end of each line would be compile-time concatenated with the first field of the next line, effectively eliminating it. Method (1) has the advantage of not adding an extra dummy field. As used by the boost code, the CSV parser would have to be modified to simply ignore the last (dummy) field or the trailing comma, whichever was implemented.
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