Writing .Map files via script

[Neil]

Hi,

I have some existing code that successfully writes .map files. At present however it only writes the elevation contours.

I have added code to append roughness lines to this file. But the result does not work.

I am fairly sure that the format for my roughness lines matches that set out in the helpfile (see below). So can I append roughness line to a .Map with elevation data or must the entire file be in the format :

z01 z02 Z n

Thanks

Neil

EXAMPLE OF ROUGNESS DATA

0.05 0.375 11
1426320.9785 6308074.9936
1426220.9785 6308074.9936
1426220.9785 6308174.9936
1426170.9785 6308174.9936
1426220.9785 6308174.9936
1426220.9785 6308274.9936
1426370.9785 6308274.9936
1426370.9785 6308224.9936
1426420.9785 6308224.9936
1426420.9785 6308074.9936

[Neil]

EDIT :

Looking at another file, it seems I can append as hoped. But would I be right in thinking that the roughness lines need to be fixed width (Tab delimited seems to work for the elevation lines)?

Thanks

[Duncan]

Hi Niel,

There's no need to use fixed-width format. Each line in the file is parsed character-by-character to extract the numbers. Spaces and TAB (ASCII 9) are treated as separators.

Duncan.