The text reader reads data from ASCII text files. Each point is represented in the file as a single line. Each line is expected to be divided into a number of fields by a separator. Each field represents a value for a point’s dimension. Each value needs to be formatted properly for C++ language double-precision values.

The text reader expects a header line to 1) indicate the separator character for the fields and 2) name the dimension for each field in the points. Any single non-alphanumeric character can be used as a separator. The header line separator can be overridden by the ‘separator’ option (see below). Each line in the file must contain the same number of fields as indicated by dimension names in the header. Spaces are generally ignored in the input unless used as a separator. When a space character is used as a separator, any number of consecutive spaces are treated as single space and leading/trailing spaces are ignored.

Default Embedded Stage

This stage is enabled by default

Streamable Stage

This stage supports streaming operations

## Example Input File¶

This input file contains X, Y and Z value for 10 points.

X,Y,Z
289814.15,4320978.61,170.76
289814.64,4320978.84,170.76
289815.12,4320979.06,170.75
289815.60,4320979.28,170.74
289816.08,4320979.50,170.68
289816.56,4320979.71,170.66
289817.03,4320979.92,170.63
289817.53,4320980.16,170.62
289818.01,4320980.38,170.61
289818.50,4320980.59,170.58


## Example Pipeline¶

{
"pipeline":[
{
"filename":"inputfile.txt"
},
{
"type":"writers.text",
"filename":"outputfile.txt"
}
]
}


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