[vtk-developers] vtkDelimitedTextReader should discard whitespace between the end of a string in the delimiter

[Scott Fowler]

Brian,

You committed a fix to vtkDelimitedTextReader on 5/31/2011 (see below).  There's still a problem with trailing whitespace.  Whitespace between the end of the string delimiter and the next field delimiter is not discarded.

Currently the line:
'1,  "word"  ,2'
is parsing to:
"1";"word  ";"2" <-- trailing whitespace around "word" is unexpected.
I would expect:
"1";"word";"2"  <-- no extraneous whitespace around "word".  This is what I want.

Is there any chance you'd be willing to make this change?  I'd make this change myself, but it's not clear to me what impact this may have on clients of the object.  Note that I've recently submitted the following enhancements to vtkDelimitedTextReader: http://review.source.kitware.com/3361.

Thanks!
Scott


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commit 7b5c9ae55717d3485ec7cc7f3e5380221c8bc1d2
Author: Brian Helba <brian.helba at kitware.com>
Date:   Tue May 31 15:32:08 2011 -0400

    BUG: String parsing in vtkDelimitedTextReader

    When using string delimiters, any content (usually whitespace)
    between the start of a field and the start of a string delimiter
    should be discarded.

    Previously, the line:
      '1, "word",2'
    was parsing to:
      "1"; " word"; "2"
    it will now parse to:
      "1"; "word"; "2"

    Change-Id: I4542bbe8de9466bbdda0ac37214b85b99bf68724
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Scott Fowler
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