[GRASS-user] ASCII Vector definition

Hi all,

I had issues while triyng to import an 850k lines ASCII vector file,
that looks like this:

ORGANIZATION: Company
DIGIT DATE: 10/06/2008
DIGIT NAME: Me
MAP NAME: Isopach
MAP DATE: 2008
OTHER INFO: Geodetic Info
MAP THRESH: 100
VERTI:
P 815257 1
287750.911964 7501478.351623 -140.000000
...
353361.492455 7654299.848450 -88.000000
353461.508591 7654299.848450 -88.000000
353561.524727 7654299.848450 -84.000000
353661.540863 7654299.848450 -88.000000
353761.557000 7654299.848450 -88.000000
353861.573136 7654299.848450 -84.000000
353961.589272 7654299.848450 -88.000000
354061.605408 7654299.848450 -88.000000
354161.621544 7654299.848450 -84.000000
1 1

I tried the import with the following command:
v.in.ascii -b in=/sismica4D_9/Landmark/Projeto_Sao_Tome/horizonte/20080906/alvo1_isocrona.vec
out=alvo1_isocrona fs='\t' y=2 z=3 --o

and got the following:

Maximum input row length: 42
Maximum number of columns: 3
Minimum number of columns: 1
WARNING: Cannot remove directory
         '/u/user/gisdata/Location/PERMANENT/.tmp/soledade/23183.1'
ERROR: y column number > minimum last column number
       (incorrect field separator?)

However, I defined the vector file withe AWK's help: awk '{printf "
%f\t%f\t%f\n",$1,$2,$3}' file1 > alvo1_isocrona.vec, then added the
rest by hand.
BTW, I am seriously considering a shell script to create those ASCII
vectors from plain XYZ files.

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