[GRASSLIST:2942] Re: data imput

[Martin O'Loughlin]

  I just opened the file in Vi and between every group of items is a 
<ctrl>M, would this be the problem?

?Thanks Martin O'Loughlin


On 14 Mar 2004, at 19:50, Nick Cahill wrote:

> Your problem might be that you're using Mac line breaks instead of 
> Unix. Macs traditionally used a different character to indicate line 
> breaks from Windows or Unix. It's changed now with OSX - I get the 
> impression that programs are inconsistent in whether they use the old 
> Mac or new Unix/OSX breaks. GRASS expects UNIX line breaks and will 
> fail if you use Mac line breaks. There are a number of programs which 
> will convert from one to another; I use BBEdit; there's a free version 
> available at versiontracker 
> (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/604). Open your 
> text file in BBEdit; there should be a series of little icons at the 
> top of the document, one of which is a file icon; pull down this menu, 
> and you should see the first three items as "Macintosh", "Unix" and 
> "DOS". If your document has "Macintosh" checked, change it to "Unix", 
> save and try again. Again there are other ways to do this, probably 
> more efficient; but this has worked for me. Good luck,
>
> Nick Cahill
>
>
>
> On Mar 14, 2004, at 3:26 AM, Martin O'Loughlin wrote:
>
>> i am a newbe, i had a look in the archives and couldn't find what i 
>> was looking for. I am attempting to plot a series of points on to a 
>> map.  i created a CSV file using excel, 3 columns long. lat and site 
>> name. using grass 5.0.2 on Mac OSX. i attempted to import using 
>> s.in.ascii but failed.
>>
>> The output:
>>
>> s.in.ascii - line 2 ** invalid format **
>> 51.60745351 -2.462143461 C>ickladerovensel
>>  s.in.ascii - line 3 ** invalid format **
>> 50.95993341 -2.469930701 Goathill>_St_Peterd
>>
>> Couple more lines in same format, i assume that it doesn't like the 
>> co-ordinate system, why?
>>
>> The input, The first few lines,
>>
>> 51.71 -1.88 Ampney_St_Peter
>> 50.74 -2.27 Askerswell
>> 51.39 -2.2 Atworth
>> 51.71 -2.55 Aylburton
>> 51.53 -1.73 Badbury
>> 51.21 -2.67 Badger Hole
>> 51.55 -2.29 Badminton
>> 51.34 -2.86 "Banwel_Rliverside"
>> 51.34 -2.86 "Banwell_Winthill"
>> 51.76 -1.88 Barnsley_Park
>> 51.82 -1.71 Barrington_Park
>> 51.76 -1.97 Barton_Farm
>> 51.39 -2.33 Bathampton
>> 51.3921163 -2.316229421 Bathford
>> 51.40114675 -2.301914768 Bathford
>> 51.14592931 -2.943640653 Bawdrip
>> 51.05528912 -0.972583174 Bayford_Lodge
>> 51.41788952 -2.618434278 Bedminster
>> 51.75211021 -1.826143485 Bibury
>> 51.824118 -2.116089022 Birdlip
>> 51.91389265 -2.218100807 Bishops_Norton
>> 52.08179284 -2.861085814 Bishopstone
>> 51.73418223 -2.130340767 Bisley
>> 51.66958563 -2.636317653 Boughspring
>> 51.42850999 -2.02877093 Bowood_House
>> 51.41024247 -2.258835361 Box
>> 50.93244085 -2.583509737 Bradford_Abbas
>>
>> Could anyone suggest where i went wrong, thanks
>>
>> Martin O'Loughlin
>>
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