Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago
Actually, I think this issue or question could go even higher level. Would it
be useful for the user to be presented with an option during import to
automatically promote a null to a blank ?(typically a null = NOTHING found
between a pair of commas in a CSV file or a pair of \t tabs in a TSV file)
`Earth,,New York City vs Earth \t\t New York City`
Original comment by thadguidry
on 8 Feb 2011 at 8:50
I think an "import empty values as nulls vs. blanks" would be useful, as would
a means to do this after import. As of now I can't transform any null cells to
blanks, and have resorted to using exception handling to merge columns together.
In any case, it looks like issue 252 is related. When a cell is null, accessing
the value attribute throws an error. They used GREL, I encountered the same
through Jython.
Original comment by benjamin...@gmail.com
on 8 Feb 2011 at 9:55
I'll be sure to add that option to the new importer UI.
Original comment by dfhu...@gmail.com
on 10 Feb 2011 at 1:14
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
benjamin...@gmail.com
on 8 Feb 2011 at 7:42