From e3ccd69ce62dca45b166a5997e4a073320a2d9e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: codeanticode <andres.colubri@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:53:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] missing categories are correctly saved in binary

---
 core/src/processing/data/Table.java | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/src/processing/data/Table.java b/core/src/processing/data/Table.java
index d945f9d2c..d98a9db51 100644
--- a/core/src/processing/data/Table.java
+++ b/core/src/processing/data/Table.java
@@ -1165,7 +1165,12 @@ public class Table {
           output.writeDouble(row.getDouble(col));
           break;
         case CATEGORY:
-          output.writeInt(columnCategories[col].index(row.getString(col)));
+          String peace = row.getString(col);
+          if (peace.equals(missingString)) {
+            output.writeInt(missingCategory);
+          } else {
+            output.writeInt(columnCategories[col].index(peace));
+          }
           break;
         }
       }
@@ -4140,7 +4145,12 @@ public class Table {
         }
         break;
       case CATEGORY:
-        output.writeInt(columnCategories[col].index(pieces[col]));
+        String peace = pieces[col];
+        if (peace.equals(missingString)) {
+          output.writeInt(missingCategory);
+        } else {
+          output.writeInt(columnCategories[col].index(peace));
+        }
         break;
       }
     }