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

[Stuart Edwards]

Hi
This command has provided hours or entertainment for me too.  Usually  
I can get it to work by meticulously following the format in example  
1 on the help page.  To this end you might try making the W and N  
into column headers, decimalize the lat/long and 'note the blank  
before entering vertex coordinates'.  Adding a columns= string helps  
too.  (columns='x double, etc).  Good luck.

Stuart
On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:07 PM, gary wrote:

> I changed the input format but got the same cryptic error message.
>
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>> 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
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