[vtk-developers] Call for Comments: Ascii representation of floats and doubles in files

[Berk Geveci]

There is a difference between what Bill is suggesting and using some sort
of encoding. What Bill is suggesting will still result in human readable as
well as generic parser parseable files. I had to look at the
double-precision documentation to figure that out.... So Bill's suggestion
should not prevent previous versions of the reader from reading new files
and wouldn't require updating the format version as far as I understand.

Best,
-berk


On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 6:05 PM, Todd via vtk-developers <
vtk-developers at vtk.org> wrote:

> Hi Ben
>
> On 2 Mar 2018 11:56 a.m., Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 11:30:39 +1300, Todd via vtk-developers wrote:
> > I wasn't suggesting base64 encoding the whole file. Just the
> double/float
> > values.
>
> That doesn't matter, it still changes the file format.
>
> Yes. It changes the file format. So does Bill's proposal to use itk
> NumberToString().
>
> I guess the change would need to be limited to some VTK readers/writers
> with an optional constructor parameter to utilise the new format.
>
>
> --Ben
>
>
>
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