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Re: [bug-recutils] Feature Requests


From: Jose E. Marchesi
Subject: Re: [bug-recutils] Feature Requests
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:23:52 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Hi John.

    Yesterday, I was experimenting with recutils for a project.  The
    following features would have made it a lot easier:
    
    1.  Templates need to be somewhat more flexible.  In particular is
    seems not to be possible to determine the format of a field.  For
    example, if x is an integer field, how can I get it into a template
    in (say) hexadecimal? {{x}} seems ok if and only if it is in in the
    recfile as a hex string.
    
    2.  Similarly, given a field with multiple values eg:
    
        foo: FirstVal
        foo: SecondVal
        foo: ThirdVal
        ...
    
    I can't see any easy way to write a template which will result in a list: 
like
    "The values of foo are FirstVal, SecondVal, ThirdVal"

Take a look to the improved recutils template language documented in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-recutils/2011-05/msg00019.html.
It is not yet implemented thou.
    
    3.  Selection expressions:  Please provide bitwise operators.

For integers?  Good idea for the TODO.
    
    4.  csvtorec : Could we have an option to import csv files in the opposite 
"orientation" ?
    

Just curious: why would you like something like that?

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Jose E. Marchesi         http://www.jemarch.net
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