[GRASS-user] v.in.ascii error message

[gary]

I find this error message from v.in.ascii a bit cryptic.

grass command:
v.in.ascii input=/usr/localsrc/utm/PERMANENT/site.dat output=sites5
format=point fs=| skip=0 x=1 y=2 z=0 cat=0

error message:
Maximum input row length: 24
Maximum number of columns: 2
Minimum number of columns: 0

GRASS_INFO_ERROR(15897,1): x column number > minimum last column number
GRASS_INFO_ERROR(15897,1): (incorrect field separator?)



The file site. dat is one line as follows
W115 58 2.4|N36 27 20.9

The default separator is "pipe", so I'm sure the delimiter is fine. Any 
idea what I'm doing wrong here?