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title: "XYZS Files"
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**InfoDrainage** can import surface data from XYZS datasets.  

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*.XYZ files are plain-text ASCII format files commonly used to store point coordinates data and may use different delimiter characters, including, <span style="color: #4b4b4b">tab, space, and </span><span style="color: #4b4b4b">semicolon, among others</span>. <span style="color: #4b4b4b"> Each line or row corresponds to to a point data, and every number between two delimiter characters in a line corresponds to a coordinate (X, Y or Z) of a point feature. </span>

*.XYZS files can include breakline details after a further two delimiter characters as well as the X,Y and Z data.