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merge tool considers empty columns to be different #200

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. have two GTFS files where the stops.txt files differ only in having
extra whitespace in an option field (e.g. zone_id)
2. merge the files
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
it would be nice if stops were merged in this case but when the zone_id
values in one file are all "" and in the other file they're all " " the
stops are not merged.

I realize that such columns are byte-by-byte id values so I'm not sure if
this can be solved or whether it's legitimate to do a strip() on strings
before comparing them.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ethan.he...@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2009 at 12:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Moved to https://github.com/google/transitfeed/issues/200

Original comment by bdfer...@google.com on 8 Oct 2014 at 12:09