Mike Williams wrote:
> If you want a series of characters that contain spaces and/or end-of-
> line characters to be considered as a single field, then you should 
> enclose it in quotes and it will be read as a string (you can't get it 
> to read it as a number because numbers can't contain such characters).

the problem was the lack of comma at end of line; see end note

> Note 1: You can't do that with a string.

k

> Note 2: You had n=n+2, which only reads half the points.

note the pointx and pointy being 5+n and 6+n, meaning if i
only increase n by 1 i'd get duplicate numbers

> Your data should use only commas as delimiters, like this. 
> Note, in particular, that commas are needed at the ends of lines.

hmm ok that was the primary cause of the problem

pushing onwards...

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