[GRASS-user] Re: v.in.ascii howto

Patton, Eric epatton at nrcan.gc.ca
Thu Nov 13 09:43:51 EST 2008


Hamish:
>IMO spaces should be encouraged, but not mandatory.

Eric:
> > I'll put a note in the docs saying it isn't necessary to pad with
> > spaces.

Hamish:
>I would just say nothing at all about it. At most something along the lines
>of excess whitespace will be ignored, but then we have to guarantee that.
>
>I would think it would be better to spend the effort to highlight the -n
>flag for standard mode without header (ex. 1b).

Done. I've highlighted the function of -z and -n in Ex.1b, and applied a number of other
cleanups, to 6.4 and 7.0 as r34274 and r34273, respectively.

~ Eric.


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