[GRASS-user] GUI vector import column format issue

[Moritz Lennert]

On 1/10/21 17:29, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Using the wxGUI when GRASS was invoked I tried to import an ASCII point 
> file
> looking like this:
> lon,lat,depth
> 7719886.85,702082.80,21
> 7719910.22,702014.88,21
> 7719927.67,701945.79,24
> 7719930.64,701875.40,19
> 7719933.85,701804.44,37
> 7719942.24,701734.58,40
> 7719949.17,701664.16,41
> 7719958.36,701594.64,38
> 7719965.04,701524.66,38
> 
> The processing window fails to import the file:
> (Fri Oct  1 08:19:22 2021) v.in.ascii -r 
> input=/home/rshepard/projects/washington/project/data/bathymetry/coe/CL_34_WSHX_20210720_CS.xyz 
> output=wash_sounding_pts separator=comma
> Scanning input for column types...
> Skipping 452 of 1211 rows falling outside of current region
> Number of columns: 3
> Number of data rows: 1211
> ERROR: 'x' column is not of number type, encountered: 'lon'
> (Fri Oct  1 08:19:22 2021) Command finished (0 sec)
> 
> Yesterday, using the text interface when invoking GRASS there were no 
> issues
> using v.in.ascii on the adjacent file which begins like this:
> lon,lat,depth
> 7709581.42,697951.64,24
> 7705545.87,698624.07,16
> 7709732.27,699488.73,27
> 7712090.79,699428.24,62
> 7716863.99,701238.89,32
> 7701540.85,698790.50,31
> 7713676.33,699192.82,58
> 7705283.41,697549.00,31
> 7705037.10,698489.22,16
> 
> Why might the GUI see the first column, longitude, differently than the
> command line version of v.in.ascii?
I cannot reproduce that in grass 7.8.5: both the GUI and the command 
line version fail on your file, unless you add skip=1 in order to skip 
the header row. Maybe you inadvertently set skip=1 in the GUI without 
noticing it ? You can check that by looking at the command history in 
the console.

Moritz