[Scilab-users] Find the error -line length

[Jan Åge Langeland]

On 28.11.2017 17:53, Jan Åge Langeland wrote:
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> On 28.11.2017 15:30, Richard llom wrote:
>> Hello,
>> when trying to read in this file:
>> ftp://ftp-cdc.dwd.de/pub/CDC/grids_germany/monthly/radiation_direct/grids_germany_monthly_radiation_direct_201706.zip 
>>
>> with:
>> M = fscanfMat('grids_germany_monthly_radiation_direct_201706.asc')
>>
>> I'm getting an error message. I suppose there is something wrong in that
>> file, but what and where exactly?
>>
>> Not directly a Scilab problem (except for the fact that the 'fscanfMat'
>> error message could be more verbose), but maybe someone here has an 
>> idea how
>> to find the error...
>>
>> Thanks
>> richard
>>
> This is what I get when using csvRead. It seems to be OK up to row  
> 558(after the header) - I renamed the file t.txt.
>
> mmm=csvRead("t.txt"," ",[],[],[],[],,28);
> Warning: Inconsistency found in the columns. At line 559, found 1307 
> columns while the previous had 654.
>
> csvRead: can not read file t.txt: Error in the column structure
>
> Jan
It has to do with the line length , try to replace -999 with -9
Jan