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Re: [bug-recutils] Feature Requests
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Jose E. Marchesi |
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Re: [bug-recutils] Feature Requests |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:23:52 +0100 |
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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?
--
Jose E. Marchesi http://www.jemarch.net
GNU Project http://www.gnu.org
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