[GRASS-user] Re: r.mapcalc: Syntax Error?

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Hermann Peifer wrote:

>> GRASS 6.5.svn (Washington-Kinross):~/grassdata > r.mapcalc "weight = if(tan_curv_5.lm < 0, -100 * tan_curv_5.lm, \
>> if(tan_curv_7.lm < 0, -100 * tan_curv_7.lm, \
>> if(tan_curv_11.lm < 0, -100 * tan_curv_11.lm, 0.000001)))"
>> syntax error, unexpected ';'
>> Parse error
>> [Raster MASK present]
>> 
>> Since there is no semi-colon in the command, what is grass trying to tell
>> me?

> Perhaps that a '\' is missing after the equal sign?  Hermann

Hermann,

   On the command line there is no \n; that's the way the text wrapped in the
MUA. But, I'll try it again and see if it does wrap and I'm missing that it
does.

Thanks,

Rich