.stb file won't parse

[rchive1]

This isn't a bug, exactly. I'm just trying to understand what's happening:

I'm trying to acadctb.load() a STB file. I get a ValueError: could not convert string to float: '0.0076200000000 (+7.Z+"8V?S_LC )' After the contents of the file get uncompressed, here is the portion at the end of the file that it can't parse:

custom_lineweight_table{
 0=0.0076200000000 (+7.Z+"8V?S_LC )
 1=0.0254
 2=0.0762
 3=0.1
 4=0.127
 5=0.15
 6=0.17780000000 (44F=@";"QC\\SM0)
 7=0.2
 22=1.2
 8=0.254
 23=1.4
 9=0.3
 10=0.35560000000 (44F=@";"UC_SN )
 11=0.4
 12=0.4318
 13=0.5
 14=0.508
 15=0.6
 16=0.635
 17=0.7
 18=0.8
 19=0.9
 20=1.0
 21=1.06
 24=1.58
 25=2.0
 26=2.11
}

Do you know what the (+7.Z+"8V?S_LC ) portion could mean?

Thanks.

[mozman]

No, I have no idea. There exist no documentation for stb and ctb files.

[rchive1]

I was afraid of that.

Here's another portion of a .pc3 file with similar additional info between parenthesis:

media{
 selection_method=2
 type="
 dm_orientation=1
 actual_printable_bounds_llx=5.7937498093 (    P,PL%T 8_0)
 actual_printable_bounds_lly=17.793750763 (    0#/+,4"%9@)
 actual_printable_bounds_urx=273.60623169 (    (+,9<4"T7@)
 actual_printable_bounds_ury=198.10624695 (    8&;#:$ <30)
 number_of_copies=1
 size{
  name="ANSI_A_(11.00_x_8.50_Inches)
  group=0
  landscape_mode=TRUE
  longplot_reduction=1.0
  media_description{
   printable_bounds_llx=5.7937498093 (    P,PL%T 8_0)
   printable_bounds_lly=17.793750763 (    0#/+,4"%9@)
   printable_bounds_urx=273.60623169 (    (+,9<4"T7@)
   printable_bounds_ury=198.10624695 (    8&;#:$ <30)
   printable_area=48289.9375
   dimensional=TRUE
   media_bounds{
    urx=279.39999390 (    8&9V<4!J5P)
    ury=215.89999390 (    P,S\\:D"QW0)
   }
  }
 }
}

I wonder if the parser should put that extra text between parenthesis into another spot in the data dictionary so it doesn't get lost but will still parse.

Anyway, thanks for the info!

[mozman]

I don't see any reason to preserve this unknown data, but I added a sanitizer function to ignore this unknown appendix.

[mozman]

@rchive1 if this issue is solved for you, please close it

[rchive1]

Sorry, I'm new-ish to GitHub, still.

Thank you.