POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : file reading mistake : Re: file reading mistake Server Time
28 Jul 2024 10:20:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: file reading mistake  
From: Tim Nikias
Date: 29 Jan 2006 06:03:55
Message: <43dca11b$1@news.povray.org>
> What the hell does POV make of that data when it reads it?

It reads comma-separated values. Strings have to be in quotation marks,
vectors use the < and >, and floats are just plain numbers. I'm not sure
about comments starting with double-slash (//), but I think they are
ignored.

POV-Ray's reading capabilities aren't meant to read "ordinary" files. Just
stuff like this.

"string", <1,1,1>, 321.514, "another_string", 4.2333, <3,6>

Regards,
Tim

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aka "Tim Nikias v2.0"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>


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