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

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:30:43AM -0700, gary wrote:
> 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?

I guess that formatting should be

115:58:2.4W|36:27:20.9N

instead of
W115 58 2.4|N36 27 20.9



Markus