Importing an undelimited text file to GRASS

[Michel Wurtz - LTE]

Trond Rafoss wrote:
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> You must excuse this message if you find it to peripheral for the GRASS mailing list.
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> My problem is that I have a text file, where each value for the raster consist of 5 characters.
> I can't get this into GRASS. I have tried to read all available documentation on the useful Gawk tool, but I can't find that it enable me to add space delimiters between columns, because also this tool requieres some kind of delimiters. I have a Fortran 90 program that should do the job but no F90 compiler.
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> Any suggestions ?

If you are running Unix (or Linux, or aix, or...), try sed :

sed 's/...../& /g' < your_file > another_name

this will introduce a space each five characters.

You may also use Excel (import fixed length text file) with WinXX

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