I'm trying to load a series of data points from a file, but I'm only getting
about half of them loaded. The data file is structured with three float
values per line:

raInDeg decInDeg zval

Each triplet defining the rightascention, declination, and zvalue(redshift)
of a celestial body. The data ranges (after a bit of processing!) are:
raInDeg: 0 ~ 360
decInDeg: -90.0 ~ +90.0
zval: estimated at 0.0 ~ 10.0

Someone suggested that it might be commas between numbers,
but when I comma delimit the file, it no longer reads.
It reads about 4000 out of 9000 entries when I tab-delimit them.
Any suggestions?


pertinent source:
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Load the data file
//

#declare RA = 0;
#declare DECL =1;
#declare ZVAL = 2;

#fopen dataFile "d:/docs/raytracing/redshiftData.txt" read

#declare LinesInFile = 10000;
#declare celestialData = array[3][ LinesInFile ];

#declare i = 0;
#while ( defined(dataFile) )

    #declare rightAscentionAsDegrees = 0.0;
    #declare declinationAsDegrees = 0.0;
    #declare zVal = 0.0;

    #read( dataFile, rightAscentionAsDegrees, declinationAsDegrees, zVal )

    #declare celestialData[RA][i] = rightAscentionAsDegrees;
    #declare celestialData[DECL][i] = declinationAsDegrees;
    #declare celestialData[ZVAL][i] = zVal;

    #declare i = i+1;
#end
    #debug concat( "\n\nTotal values read from file: ", str(i,5,0), "\n\n" )
#fclose dataFile

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