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Reading the ASCII is as a float is almost certainly going to Do Something Completely Terrible; it would need to read it in bitwise-identical, and (unless you're printing to a great many significant figures, and can accurately predict how your parsing routine is going to work), this is unlikely to happen.

As for .pcd files, have you tried it? Run the experiment...

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