POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : #fopen and #read troubles : Re: #fopen and #read troubles Server Time
6 Sep 2024 04:22:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: #fopen and #read troubles  
From: david sharp
Date: 22 Feb 1999 20:31:54
Message: <36D203B4.808@interport.net>
Rudy Velthuis wrote:
> [...snip...]
> 
> >-86.662827,-2.535072,7.846359
> >=================================
> >
> >I am consistently getting this error message
> >from POVRay (3.1a, MSDOS):
> 
> ><----ERROR
> > 8_2_11a.dat:2: error: float, vector, or string literal expected
> > but ,  found instead.
> 
>  POV-Ray is propably right. It propably expects to see values which are 
> not separated by commas in your .dat file. I haven't tried this, but 
> could this be the matter?

i have tried replacing the commas with spaces and, amazingly 
(ironically?) getting the same error message. Anyway, the way
i read the docs, they specifically say fields in the data
should be separated by commas.


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