<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">Hello,</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">I've noticed that using las2txt with the --parse flag, specifically '--parse xyzctainreduRGB' produces strange results with many of the datasets I have on hand to test with. Specifically, when the dataset does not appear to have values for all 15 elements, it will print nothing, as opposed to an empty field:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">503999.60,4795911.76,2459.86,2,68127.47555690,?,250,1,1,996,0,0, <-- three elements missing</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">503999.54,4795912.86,2459.77,2,68127.49011330,?,247,1,1,996,0,1, <-- three missing elements<br>503999.78,4795914.98,2459.18,2,68127.51788721, <-- 10 missing elements</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">It seems as though las2txt should print the empty elements as well:</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">503999.60,4795911.76,2459.86,2,68127.47555690,?,250,1,1,996,0,0,,,</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">503999.54,4795912.86,2459.77,2,68127.49011330,?,247,1,1,996,0,1,,,</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">503999.78,4795914.98,2459.18,2,68127.51788721,,,,,,,,,,</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">It appears I can get this behavior if I specify a value that is always present, such as x,y, or z as the final element (-</span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">-parse ctainreduRGBxyz). However, it would be nice IMHO, if the behavior was consistent. Also, it appears the '--xml' flag in las2txt does not produce xml-based output, and does not override the --parse flag.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></font></div><div>Are the above known problems and if so, is anyone currently tackling them? If not, I believe we will take a stab at it.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Charles</div><div><a href="http://Opentopography.org">Opentopography.org</a></div><div><br></div></body></html>