[vtk-developers] [vtkDelimitedTextReader] Proposed change

[Pebay, Philippe P]

Hello,

I am proposing to make the following change to vtkDelimitedTextReader:
* Add a boolean iVar called UseIdTypeForInt that lets the user decide whether all integer values should be stored as vtkIdTypes, as opposed to ints, which is the current behavior.
* By default, this iVar would be set to 'false' and thus the current behavior would remain unchanged
* Backward-compatibility issues: none.

The motivation for this change is that I can't use the vtkDelimitedTextReader in its current form to load up statistical models into some vtkStatisticsAlgorithms which require vtkIdType arrays for some table columns.

Please let me know what you think.

Thank you,
P

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Philippe Pébay
Sandia National Laboratories