> > Yes, this makes sense. A patch would be welcome! Please have a look at pr12787 <https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/12787>.
It really is a complete nightmare and my preference would be if that > file format was banned from existence by the QAnon high council. My second > choice would be if people/Salome exported meshes in other, better > described > and easier to read formats. I hope they realise this and make necessary changes soon :). On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 17:57, Wolfgang Bangerth <bange...@colostate.edu> wrote: > On 9/30/21 6:02 AM, vachanpo...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I found this thread which highlights one small issue in importing a unv > file > > (generated by > > Salome): https://groups.google.com/g/dealii/c/iWnLv4v0V1M/m/38jm5Ck8WXYJ > . > > > > If I understand correctly, dealii expects the file to start with "-1" > and then > > have the section "2411", instead of all the other stuff that Salome > prints. > > This issue still persists in dealii-9.3.0 (and Salome 9.7). > > > > Is there any specific reason why we simply can not ignore all the lines > > between "-1" and "2411"? > > > > I am willing to submit a patch if the developers feel this not wrong and > would > > be useful. > > Yes, this makes sense. A patch would be welcome! > > (Fundamentally, the reason why UNV is such a terrible file format is > because > it is essentially a memory dump of a program built decades ago. It has a > large > number of "sections" -- 2411 being one of them -- each of which one has to > understand because there are no begin- and end-markers for each section. > You > can't just read the file until you find the number 2411: if you wanted to > do > it right, you'd have to correctly read the previous section until it is > over, > at which point you can inspect the next number and see whether it is 2411, > indicating the 2411 section. In practice, you are probably safe if you > skip > forward to a place where a new -1 alone on one line is followed by 2411 > alone > on one line, but while this works, this is not the *correct* way to read > these > files. It really is a complete nightmare and my preference would be if > that > file format was banned from existence by the QAnon high council. My second > choice would be if people/Salome exported meshes in other, better > described > and easier to read formats.) > > Best > W. > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Wolfgang Bangerth email: bange...@colostate.edu > www: http://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/ > > -- > The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ > For mailing list/forum options, see > https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "deal.II User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/2ba62583-1f00-bdd4-d514-254a120f8c8b%40colostate.edu > . > -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/CALAVa_x8sneO9%3D%2BZWR6XAi-nR-cB5Fup%2BSC8KeYhaPRRjOK0PQ%40mail.gmail.com.
