[Paraview] Editing (or omitting) columns in input file

[David E DeMarle]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Ann Moulding <geoflutist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I posted this question before to this list – but didn’t get an
> answer.

Our emails probably crossed in flight, my recommendations was to file
a bug report and use the python programmable filter to remove the
array.
see: http://markmail.org/message/loz3bdk6lmhfit67

>
> I am a Paraview newbie.  So bear with me.
>
> I am importing a “csv” file – that has about 15 different fields.  One of
> these fields is text – the rest are numeric.
>
> I bring the file in, Use the “Table to Points” filter, and the “Delaunay 2D”
> filters with no problem.  Then I try to apply a “Calculator” filter so I can
> define a vector field that I can create a glyph for.
>
> When I do this – I get an error message that an array field can’t be created
> for the text field (the text field is not part of my calculation).  So
> somehow this text field is causing the calculator to hiccup.
>
> Is there a way around this?   Is there a way to select all of the fields
> except the text field – and then run the calculator on that filtered
> dataset?
>
> Any ideas are appreciated.
>
> Ann
>
>
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