[chirp_users] programming assistance

[Roger Jane]

> >so I can't verify this. Perhaps it would be possible to have CHIRP always resync with the beginning of the CSV file's next line when a linefeed is encountered? Jim KC9HI 
> Absolutely common sense. Would be surprised were it not already the case...

Very much looks to me as if it is already the case.  The csv data is read using a standard python csv library and parsed line by line.  Any data that is 'missing' is simply skipped over when it's being read into memory.  This is not 'exactly' the same action as a blank field (missing skips the data, blank sets it to 'None') but I would expect the overall effect to be the same.  If anyone wants to investigate, the place to look would seem to be the _parse_csv_data_line() function in generic_csv.py.

Rog (hoping he's helping rather than complicating!)

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From: <chirp_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com <mailto:chirp_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com>> on behalf of Rich NE1EE <TheDustyKey at imaginarian.org <mailto:TheDustyKey at imaginarian.org>>
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Date: Wednesday, 10 January 2024 at 13:34
To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com <mailto:chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>>
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] programming assistance


On 2024-01-10 08:15:, Jim Unroe wrote:
>CHIRP CSV files often have multiple trailing commas at the end of each line due to the URXALL, RPT1CALL, RPT2CALL and DVCODE fields rarely being used. Power,Comment,URCALL,RPT1CALL,RPT2CALL,DVCODE 5.00,,Low,,,,, Excel is known to remove multiple trailing commas at the end of a line. When CHIRP reads the CSV file where the trailing commas have been removed, the trailing data will be read into the wrong fields. Excel always works fine if there is alway something in the last field of each line. I've read that there is a setting that you can enable in excel that tells it to leave trailing commas alone. I don't have excel so I can't verify this. Perhaps it would be possible to have CHIRP always resync with the beginning of the CSV file's next line when a linefeed is encountered? Jim KC9HI 


// This is the discussion that I need to capture in my notes for the ARES group. // I have been "lucky" not to have run into this in the past. And wrt the present file, all channels end with a comment, so if there are blank fields, the csv will be correctly formatted (IAW your trailing ,,, comment).


I will look into Excel settings, but any rate, I need to caution the group. I've never had a problem with chirp, but then I am fairly computer literate, and I don't know how that enhances my chirp experiences.


...and finally...
>so I can't verify this. Perhaps it would be possible to have CHIRP always resync with the beginning of the CSV file's next line when a linefeed is encountered? Jim KC9HI 


Absolutely common sense. Would be surprise were it not already the case...


73 Rich NE1EE
The Dusty Key
On the banks of the Piscataqua


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