Verbatim elevations of the form XXX–XXX' are not parsed correctly

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Verbatim elevations of the form XXX–XXX' are not parsed correctly #78

Open zygoballus opened 1 year ago

zygoballus commented 1 year ago

If your record includes a verbatim elevation of 8700–9400', this gets parsed as minimumElevationInMeters: 2865, which is incorrect. It should be parsed to minimumElevationInMeters: 2652, maximumElevationInMeters: 2865. All other verbatim elevation conversions that I tried worked correctly.

zygoballus commented 3 months ago

It looks like this bug is caused by the use of an en dash instead of a hyphen. The en dash is the grammatically correct punctuation to use (to indicate a range), but in this case the conversion function doesn't recognize it.