Bug#887667: socnetv - commas cause crashes

[bug.reporter@mail.sheugh.com]

Package: socnetv
Version: 2.1-1.1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I had written a perl application to produce a database table 
of linked organisations by extracting details from a book. 
My preferred way of producing the network graph id to produce 
a pajek.net file from the postgresql table of linked names. 
There are roughly 278 tuples in the table and slightly fewer 
nodes. 

I opened socnetv and selected pajek for import. When I clicked 
on 'OK', socnetv segfaulted. 

This is a consistent behaviour caued by one particular data field: 
'Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms'

Altering the field to: 
'Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco and Firearms' 
allows the loading to proceed as it should. 

Initially I thought it was the & (ampersand) but it still crashed. 

The commas cause crashes. 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages socnetv depends on:
pn  libc6                     <none>
pn  libgcc1                   <none>
pn  libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1  <none>
pn  libqt5core5a              <none>
pn  libqt5gui5                <none>
pn  libqt5network5            <none>
pn  libqt5printsupport5       <none>
pn  libqt5widgets5            <none>
pn  libqt5xml5                <none>
pn  libstdc++6                <none>

socnetv recommends no packages.

socnetv suggests no packages.

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