topic raster to ascii in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/raster-to-ascii/m-p/326099#M18630 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi.&nbsp; I am trying to convert raster files to ascii files to use in a modeling program.&nbsp; I have done this before a couple years ago using the 9.3 version and never had any problems.&nbsp; When I use the raster to ascii tool, I choose .asc in the 'Save as type' box, but it keeps saving as a text file.&nbsp; Just to try it out, I redid it selecting Save as a .txt file'.&nbsp; This time, it saved as an .asc like I wanted, but I'm concerned it won't behave correctly.&nbsp; Is it just that the extension labels are mixed?&nbsp; I'm wary of moving forward with my modeling project if the file is not in the correct format.&nbsp; I tried to open it in notepad to check, but it is too big to view there (it is a global coverage of river&nbsp; basins).&nbsp; Is there some way to verify that the output file (when choosing 'save as .txt) really is an ascii file?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank-you,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Laura</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:53:00 GMT LauraDugan 2011-11-18T16:53:00Z raster to ascii https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/raster-to-ascii/m-p/326099#M18630 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi.&nbsp; I am trying to convert raster files to ascii files to use in a modeling program.&nbsp; I have done this before a couple years ago using the 9.3 version and never had any problems.&nbsp; When I use the raster to ascii tool, I choose .asc in the 'Save as type' box, but it keeps saving as a text file.&nbsp; Just to try it out, I redid it selecting Save as a .txt file'.&nbsp; This time, it saved as an .asc like I wanted, but I'm concerned it won't behave correctly.&nbsp; Is it just that the extension labels are mixed?&nbsp; I'm wary of moving forward with my modeling project if the file is not in the correct format.&nbsp; I tried to open it in notepad to check, but it is too big to view there (it is a global coverage of river&nbsp; basins).&nbsp; Is there some way to verify that the output file (when choosing 'save as .txt) really is an ascii file?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank-you,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Laura</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:53:00 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/raster-to-ascii/m-p/326099#M18630 LauraDugan 2011-11-18T16:53:00Z Re: raster to ascii https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/raster-to-ascii/m-p/326100#M18631 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I managed to convert the .txt file to ascii by opening the text file in notepad and saving it as an ascii.&nbsp; It didn't change the extension though, but just by changing manually by deleting the txt extension and typing in ascii I got it to work in the program I'm using, GARP, which requires layers to be input as ascii files.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:01:35 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/raster-to-ascii/m-p/326100#M18631 ConnieJones 2013-03-14T02:01:35Z