[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] v.in.ascii error message

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:09:12PM +0200, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> you need to delimit records with | not lines
> and then have one record per line like this:
> 
> W115|58|2.4
> N36|27|20.9
> 
> Also, I am not sure if W115 or N36 is a correct
> way of specifying the coordinates?

I guess that it should be

115:58:2.4W|36:27:20.9N

instead of
 W115 58 2.4|N36 27 20.9
 
Markus

> Unfortunately, v.in.ascii almost always give that
> error message, which is usually not to helpful.
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> gary wrote:
> >I find this error message from v.in.ascii a bit cryptic.
> >
> >grass command:
> >v.in.ascii input=/usr/localsrc/utm/PERMANENT/site.dat output=sites5
> >format=point fs=| skip=0 x=1 y=2 z=0 cat=0
> >
> >error message:
> >Maximum input row length: 24
> >Maximum number of columns: 2
> >Minimum number of columns: 0
> >
> >GRASS_INFO_ERROR(15897,1): x column number > minimum last column number
> >GRASS_INFO_ERROR(15897,1): (incorrect field separator?)
> >
> >
> >
> >The file site. dat is one line as follows
> >W115 58 2.4|N36 27 20.9
> >
> >The default separator is "pipe", so I'm sure the delimiter is fine. Any 
> >idea what I'm doing wrong here?
> >
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