[GRASSLIST:2943] Re: data imput

[dylan at iici.no-ip.org]

>   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
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>

there is a quick way to deal with this in a UNIX environment:
a small program called 'flip' will convert between DOS (^M) and UNIX style
line endings. it is apt-gettable by the package name 'flip' since you are
on OSX, you might want to try converting the line endings with something
like awk or sed.

-dylan


> 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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