[Qgis-user] delimited text

[John C. Tull]

Declan,

I've found that the plugin is very picky about line endings. You will  
need to use a text editor that can change your line endings from Mac  
to another format such as DOS or a unix format. Of course, it would be  
nice for the plugin to not care. I always forget this, and spend a few  
more minutes than I want recalling the reason and working it out.

Cheers,
John

On Feb 17, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Declan Troy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm experimenting with the delimited text plugin. My text file has  
> the fields delimited with tabs. The plugin seems to parse the field  
> correctly, the sample text window shows the file correctly and  the  
> field names are listed in the X field and Y field boxes BUT the end  
> of lines of data are not recognized (even though things look ok in  
> the sample text). The entire file gets imported as a single record  
> and the cell values are listed as options for the X and Y fields.
>
> One peculiar feature is the first field of the each record (this  
> happens to be the X value, longitude) is concatenated with the last  
> record of the preceding record, otherwise all cells are distinct but  
> treated as one long record.
>
> Any clues as to what I'm doing wrong or a possible solution to get  
> the end of lines recognized? Note these text files can be read  
> without problem in R.
>
> I'm using qgis 1.0.0 on OS X
>
> Thanks,
> Declan
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