[Kst] [Bug 120827] Command line option -f fails for some asciifiles

[Barth Netterfield]

On January 29, 2006 07:40 pm, George Staikos wrote:
> > | > Perhaps as a stop-gap measure, we could have the datasource scan the
> > | > first 50 lines (or some large-but-not-performance-killing number) of
> > | > the file and take the maximum number of fields as the number for the
> > | > whole file.  How does this sound?
> > |
> > |   That sounds better to me, but again, API changes are not disallowed
> > | at this point.
> >
> > Ok, I think this is the easiest to implement given our need to get 1.2
> > out immediately.  I'll come up with a patch ASAP and post for review.
>
>   Great, thanks.

Perhaps lines 1, 5, 10, and 50, rather than the 1st 50... but otherwise, I 
agree.  And it is a significant regression.

cbn