s.in.ascii

[mlennert at club.worldonline.be]

> Hi Moritz,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:41:32AM +0200, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I managed to import my files, noticing two thnigs:
> > 
> > - If I understand right, the category number is obligatory, so, even if 
> > there's only coordinates, and no categories defined, one has to add a #0 at 
> > the end of each line.
> Actually this is not intended. You should be able to import
> x1 y1 z1 
> x2 y2 z2
> ...
> 
> without #cat column. If not possible, this would be a bug.
> 

I just have X, Y and I always get the "WARNING: error scanning 
floating point attribute" when I try to import them on their own. But when I 
add a third column with #0 it works alright.

> > - In tcltkgrass, the s.in.ascii module seems to be bugged concerning the "fs" 
> > switch. In console mode I have to type "fs=;" (with quotes) for it to work , 
> > tcltkgrass doesn't seem to add the quotes.
> No, it doesn't. But just enter
> ";"
> into the fs field (comes out as fs=";" then).
> This should work.

When I enter that I get 'Error: missing " '.

Moritz