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Greetings! It looks like you are having some issues importing some local ascii data. Were you able to get things figured out, or are you still having issues? If you are still having issues, would you mind sending me an example file and I can check it out for you? How big would the example be? Cheers! Sean > Full Name: anandhi > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: ksu > Package Version: 3.0u2 build date:2012-02-10 17:21 UTC > Operating System: Windows 7 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_3.0u2\jre version: 1.6.0_20 > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: There was an error loading the data: > Error creating data source:file.pointtext with: > C:\Users\anandhi\AA\Indicators\FrostDays_spatialAnalysis\analysis_IDV\LSF_FFF_GSL_IDV.csv > Making grid parameters > For input string: ""5"" > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""5"" > at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Unknown Source) > at visad.data.text.TextAdapter.readit(TextAdapter.java:546) > at visad.data.text.TextAdapter.<init>(TextAdapter.java:281) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:614) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:479) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getSample(TextPointDataSource.java:2518) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(PointDataSource.java:939) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(TextPointDataSource.java:2526) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getDataChoices(DataSourceImpl.java:1839) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1579) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1980) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1897) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1831) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1804) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:943) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFilesInner(FileChooser.java:656) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFiles(FileChooser.java:525) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.doLoadInThread(FileChooser.java:547) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1062) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1090) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: BSC-524434 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open