[PATCH] More tolerant about spaces in GPS coordinates.

[Miika Turkia]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Patrick Valsecchi <patrick at thus.ch> wrote:

> On 02/03/2015 04:41 PM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 04:32:40PM +0100, Patrick Valsecchi wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This is a tentative to make subsurface a bit more flexible when parsing
>>> GPS
>>> coordinates. I like to geo-reference my dives, but copy and pasting the
>>> coordinates from web sites was quite a pain (needed a lot of manual
>>> correction).
>>>
>>> Please have a look and comment. I'm quite tempted to go wild and do
>>> another
>>> rewrite without using regular expressions... would be more flexible and
>>> less
>>> code, IMHO.
>>>
>> Absolutely. By all means, please rewrite it without regular expression if
>> that makes it more flexible.
>>
>> Given where we are in the testing cycle, I won't apply this fix to master.
>> I'm hoping to cut 4.4 in the next day or two and there's no way this will
>> get enough testing.
>>
>
> OK, here is a total rewrite of the GPS coordinates parsing including UTs.
> It is a lot more flexible on the format and supports all the formats of
> the previous parser (AFAIK).
>
> I share your opinion on not including it in 4.4.
>

Do you care to work on the GPS parsing a bit more? We have some requests
for more lax parsing on our user forum:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/subsurface-divelog/pMPlpNvhmfw

E.g. 48 51.491n 2 17.677e

miika
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