POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : read problem in Win Vista : Re: read problem in Win Vista Server Time
19 May 2024 16:40:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: read problem in Win Vista  
From: Alain
Date: 16 Feb 2008 20:14:30
Message: <47b78a76@news.povray.org>
Mike Williams nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/02/16 00:32:
> Wasn't it melo who wrote:
>> I have been trying to read from a file containing rotation vectors for 
>> joints
>> involved in a move, however I could not get it working.
>>
>> I set up a while loop to read all the records in the file,  in the while
>> loop, POV-RAY reads the first record correctly, however in the second 
>> record it
>> complains about "Expecting a float, string, or a rotation vector, but 
>> finding a
>> instead."
>>
>> I could not see anything different between 1st record it likes and the 
>> 2nd it
>> bumbs on, I even copied the 1st record twice to see if it will read it 
>> for the
>> seond time, it had not.
>>
>> Again, here is my walk01.txt file:
>>
>> "L_Hip_Ind",3,<-40,0,0>
>> "L_Knee_Ind",4,<0,0,0>
>> "L_Ankle_Ind",5,<50,0,0>
>> "R_Hip_Ind",13,<45, 0, 0>
>> "R_Knee_Ind",14,<5, 0, 0>
>> "L_Elbow_Ind",10,<2, 0, 0>
>> "R_Acromioclav_Ind",18,<0, 10, 0>
>> "L_Acromioclav_Ind",8,<0, -10, 0>
>> "R_Acromioclav_Ind",18,<-40, 0, 20>
>> "R_Elbow_Ind",20,<-90, 0, 0>
>> "R_Ball_Ind",17,<-60, 0, 0>
>> "Lower_Back_Ind",2,<-0,0,0>
>> "HumanoidRoot_Ind",0,<20, 0, 0>
> 
> POVRay doesn't see line breaks as being field separators. You need to 
> have commas at the end of each line except the last.
> 
You can even have an extra, and useless, coma after the last item.

-- 
Alain
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