[GRASS-dev] help file incorrect for v.in.ascii

[Michael Barton]

On 11/9/07 12:43 PM, "Hamish" <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> I just tested something and found out that the helpfile is incorrect for
>> v.in.ascii (although  my often faulty memory was correct).
>> 
>> The helpfile says that you can specify which columns are used for the x and
>> y coordinates.
> 
> this is correct.
> 
>> However, this generates an error.
> 
> what's the error? sample input file?

The error is something about an incorrect number of columns. The file was a
very simple one for just 2 points

Originally

cat, x, y, string

When changed to 

x, y, cat, string

it worked fine.

This was compiled from cvs 6.3 last week.

Michael

>  
>> I remembered that in the past, the x and y columns MUST be the the first 2.
> 
> nope, I've never heard of that. I ran it with x&y as columns 2&3  yesterday.
> 
>> When we changed our text file to have x and y in columns 1 and 2, it reads
>> the file fine.
>> 
>> We¹re doing this with GRASS 6.3 on Windows AND Mac.
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
> 
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