Okay, I've probably made another stupid mistake that I'll figure out fifteen
 minutes after I post this, but at the moment I am utterly baffled and
clueless.

I'm trying to read from a file that looks like this:

//----

 <3.630000,6.150000>,
 <2.590000,5.280000>,
 <1.880000,3.690000>,
 <2.400000,1.720000>,
 <3.370000,1.050000>,
 <4.850000,0.690000>,
 <6.370000,0.880000>,
 <7.490001,1.920000>,
 <7.410001,2.700000>,
 <6.860000,3.320000>,
 <6.170000,3.080000>,
 <5.330000,3.680000>,
 <5.120000,4.530000>,
 <5.620000,4.950000>

//-----
// I wound up with, in part, the following code and I get an error saying:
// "Parse error: Expected 'Undeclared identifier', uv vector found instead"

#declare Rv = array[210]

#declare cnt = 1;

#fopen SplnFile Fname read

// -- #while (cnt < 210) <--- this was commented out to check problem
#if (defined(SplnFile))
  #read (SplnFile, tempz)     // this part works
  #declare Rv[0] = tempz;
  #declare cnt = cnt + 1;
//#end
#end

#read (SplnFile, shit)
#declare Rv[1] = shit;

text
      { ttf "crystal.ttf",  vstr(2, Rv[0], ", ", 0, 5), 0.02,  0     //
        texture { pigment {rgb 1} finish {ambient 1} }
        scale y*0.7
        translate z*3.2
        translate x*-3.2
      }
text
      { ttf "crystal.ttf",  vstr(2, Rv[1], ", ", 0, 5), 0.02,  0     //
        texture { pigment {rgb 1} finish {ambient 1} }
        scale y*0.7
        translate z*3.2
        translate x*-3.2
        translate y*3
      }

//---- > failure happens when I try to read into the array as here:

#while (defined(SplnFile))
  #read (SplnFile, Rv[cnt-1])  //*<-- fail point, read into an array fails
  #declare cnt = cnt + 1;         // why must it be undeclared?
                            // how do I fix it so the #while statement
#end                              // reads it?

#fclose SplnFile

//=====================

If anyone can figure out what I've done wrong -- or is it some weird bug --
let me know.

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