[GRASS-user] settings nulls with r.mapcalc

[Glynn Clements]

Sebastian P. Luque wrote:

> Are the following calls doing the same in terms of which cells get
> assigned the null value?
> 
> $ r.mapcalc "new_raster = if(raster == 0 || raster == 253, null(), raster)"
> $ r.null map=raster setnull=0,253

Yes; both set any cells which are either 0 or 253 to null.

They differ in that r.mapcalc creates a new map while r.null modifies
the existing map in-place.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>