> My guess would be:
> Compilers (and interpreters, like povray) are told to ignore whitespace
> charachters, ' ', '\n' and the like.  However, when you read from a file,
> you are simply reading a stream of data.  The computer doesn't care, or
> know, what the data is, it just assumes that it is what the reading
program
> thinks it is.
*SNIP*

I think you've misunderstood how POV handles I/O. If you put a "\n" and
write that to a file, it won't be reduced to \n, but to "return / new line".
When writing, POV doesn't write the quotation marks. As someone else
mentioned, he had a typo in his vector ( "<0,0,0)," instead of "<0,0,0>," )
which was the problem.

You can't read new line characters, they simply don't exist in the file.

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