BUG: Import text list with tabs at the beginning crashes TDL

[Ralph Earey]

I've noticed any text copied into the Windows clipboard with tabs (& I think spaces) at the beginning crashes TDL.

[.dan.g.]

Ah yes, tabs/spaces are probably being treated as delimiters denoting child relationships...

[.dan.g.]

Strange, this causes no trouble for me at all, neither on 7.1 nor 7.2.

And I played around with tabs and spaces in all sorts of configurations.

Is there any crash information at all?

On Tuesday, 26 September 2017 21:29:40 UTC+10, Ralph Earey wrote:

[Ralph Earey]

Hi Dan - I've just tested on 7.1.4.6 and the exact same happens. I open the txt file (fresh download from this post) in Notepad, select all, then goto the desired task and hit Ctrl+I and set the field mapping, click ok and it crashes. I've uploaded some screenshots.

[Pierre de la Verre]

The problem of the data in the sample file is: this is not a real table.

First line defines two empty columns and then a value which is used as "Title"
Second line has only one column - this is skipped because of the empty first column in first line. And third column does not exist - this causes the crash.

If you modify the second line then it works fine - both with Clipboard and file import; both with "\t" and with "real tab"

[.dan.g.]

Ah, your initial post did not say you were using the CSV importer so I assumed you were using the Outline (.txt) importer.

ps. The CSV importer assumes that the first line is a header line which is one of the reasons why the 'Import Tasks' dialog adds a blank line for you...

[Ralph Earey]

Thx guys - using the Outline (.txt) works just fine.

[.dan.g.]

Fixed in 7.1.4.7?

On Tuesday, 26 September 2017 21:29:40 UTC+10, Ralph Earey wrote:

[Ralph Earey]

Yes, Thx Dan