Hi again, I traced one of the problems with my attempts to import vector and associated attribute tables. I found that if some rows contain null values for at least one column, then v.in.ascii cannot parse the table correctly. With an input file as this:
---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->--- $ cat /tmp/gmt.XQTuDE/test.dat sample_id|project|species|sex|flipper_tag|date_time_deployed|claw_marks|mass|body_length|girth|fat_depth|locid|prognum|date_time|class|lon|lat|lon_aea|lat_aea AGB-08-0001|Fjord|Ph|male|1316|2008-8-11 18:30:00||25|90|82.5||27867|01142|2008-8-12 8:28:08|1|-63.076|58.448|-4.44|22.06 AGB-08-0001|Fjord|Ph|male|1316|2008-8-11 18:30:00||25|90|82.5||27868|01142|2008-8-12 9:41:28|A|-63.101|58.431|-5.90|20.17 AGB-08-0001|Fjord|Ph|male|1316|2008-8-11 18:30:00||25|90|82.5||27869|01142|2008-8-12 11:22:01|A|-63.086|58.407|-5.03|17.49 AGB-08-0001|Fjord|Ph|male|1316|2008-8-11 18:30:00||25|90|82.5||27870|01142|2008-8-12 11:48:25|2|-63.086|58.413|-5.03|18.16 AGB-08-0001|Fjord|Ph|male|1316|2008-8-11 18:30:00||25|90|82.5||27871|01142|2008-8-12 12:58:22|B|-63.119|58.463|-6.94|23.74 AGB-08-0001|Fjord|Ph|male|1316|2008-8-11 18:30:00||25|90|82.5||27872|01142|2008-8-12 13:39:50|0|-63.106|58.428|-6.19|19.84 AGB-08-0001|Fjord|Ph|male|1316|2008-8-11 18:30:00||25|90|82.5||27873|01142|2008-8-12 13:51:36|B|-63.067|58.398|-3.92|16.49 AGB-08-0001|Fjord|Ph|male|1316|2008-8-11 18:30:00||25|90|82.5||27874|01142|2008-8-12 14:54:49|A|-63.061|58.442|-3.56|21.39 ---<--------------------cut here---------------end--------------------->--- Note the empty columns 7 and 11 for all rows. v.in.ascii produces this error: ---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->--- v.in.ascii in=/tmp/gmt.XQTuDE/test.dat out=test skip=1 x=18 y=19 cat=12 --o --v Scanning input for column types... Maximum input row length: 159 Maximum number of columns: 19 Minimum number of columns: 19 Column: 1 type: string length: 11 Column: 2 type: string length: 5 Column: 3 type: string length: 2 Column: 4 type: string length: 4 Column: 5 type: integer Column: 6 type: string length: 18 Column: 7 type: string length: 0 Column: 8 type: integer Column: 9 type: integer Column: 10 type: double Column: 11 type: string length: 0 Column: 12 type: integer Column: 13 type: integer Column: 14 type: string length: 18 Column: 15 type: string length: 1 Column: 16 type: double Column: 17 type: double Column: 18 type: double Column: 19 type: double Importing points... Populating table... dbmi: Protocol error Building topology for vector map <test>... Registering primitives... 8 primitives registered 8 vertices registered Building areas... 0 areas built 0 isles built Attaching islands... Attaching centroids... Topology was built Number of nodes: 8 Number of primitives: 8 Number of points: 8 Number of lines: 0 Number of boundaries: 0 Number of centroids: 0 Number of areas: 0 Number of isles: 0 v.in.ascii complete. ---<--------------------cut here---------------end--------------------->--- The error only occurs if the null values are present. Cheers, -- Seb _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
