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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">HI All,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I'm having issues converting from CSV to PLY.</p>
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<div>### How did you install PDAL?</div>
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<div>PDAL 1.7 installed using OSGeo4W</div>
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<div>### What's your operating system? (Copy/paste the output of https://www.whatismybrowser.com/)</div>
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<div>Windows 10</div>
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<div>### What is the problem?</div>
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<div>When I run pdal translate to convert a CSV to PLY, I get a crash.</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">### How can we reproduce this?</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To reproduce, here are the parts and pieces:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">translator.json:</span></div>
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<div>{</div>
<div> "pipeline":[</div>
<div> {</div>
<div> "type":"readers.text",</div>
<div> "filename":"EC HOVNANIAN 18 - GC translated.csv"</div>
<div> },</div>
<div> {</div>
<div> "type":"writers.ply",</div>
<div> "filename":"EC HOVNANIAN 18 - GC translated.ply"</div>
<div> }</div>
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<div>}</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">EC HOVNANIAN 18 - GC translated.csv:</span><br>
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<div>X,Y,Z,red,green,blue</div>
<div>498.309,742.941,857.817,255,0,0</div>
<div>375.538,898.159,850.729,0,255,0</div>
<div>316.44,888.66,852.831,0,0,255</div>
<div>448.914,630.781,858.101,255,255,0</div>
<div>411.479,813.864,871.643,0,255,255</div>
<div>202.193,819.215,878.784,255,0,255</div>
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Command:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>pdal translate --json translator.json --input "EC HOVNANIAN 18 - GC translated.csv" --output "EC HOVNANIAN 18 - GC translated.ply"</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ooh. Plot twist: it works if I rename the input file and run as follows:</span><br>
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<div><span>pdal translate --json translator.json --input "input.csv" --output "output.ply"</span><br>
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