[Insight-developers] MetaIO Unknown meta-data bug

[Stephen Aylward]

Sorry for the extended radio silence...

Brad wrote:
> The more I think about the more I think it may be best to not change the
> parsing, and just stop allowing the metaIO library to write ambiguous empty
> value for fields, which is accomplished in the first two patchs. Agree?

I fully agree.   MetaIO is already full of wackiness (e.g., HeaderSize
= -1 causes the header to be estimated by assuming that the data is at
the end of the file).

To me, tag-value paired files that contain only a tag are
syntactically incorrect.   This is almost a religious issue, but so
many things are.

I'd rather see the notion of optional quotes (") being introduced so
that null strings and multi-line strings can be defined.  This may
break backward compatibility - I would have to test to see if quotes
work now or not.

s

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> Thanks,
> Stephen
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> Bradley Lowekamp
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> Medical Science and Computing for
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> Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
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> National Library of Medicine
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> blowekamp at mail.nih.gov
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