[GRASSLIST:5645] Re: AW: Re: v.in.ascii Grass6.0

[Moritz Lennert]

On Fri, February 4, 2005 16:20, Jan Bartholdy said:
> Thanks, Moritz,
>
> v.in.ascii input=/home/Jan_Bartholdy/cities.dat output=cities format=point
> fs=| columns='x double, y double, name string' x=1 y=2 z=0 cat=0
>
> has printed the error:
>
> WARNING: DOS text format found, attempting import anyway
> Maximum input row length: 42
> Maximum number of columns: 1
> Maximum number of columns: 1
> ERROR: ycol > minimum last column number

v.in.ascii only finds one column.

A similar bug was reported for space delimited files and fixed on Jan 28:

http://www.intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2908&display=History

Which GRASS version are you using ? And on which platform ?

If I understand correctly you are using "|" as delimiter ?

Moritz