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

[Michael Barton]

On 11/10/07 3:18 AM, "Moritz Lennert" <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:

> Michael Barton wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 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
> 
> Are you sure the column separator was defined correctly ? Whenever I got
> this error this was always the problem.

Absolutely. We used the same column separator and same way of specifying it
in both cases.

Michael

> 
> Moritz
> 

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