# VCF parsing error - float instead of int
**URL:** https://discuss.hail.is/t/vcf-parsing-error-float-instead-of-int/1271
**Category:** Hail Query & hailctl
**Created:** [February 5, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/vcf-parsing-error-float-instead-of-int/1271 "2020-02-05T15:41:25Z")
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### Author:  [@orr](https://discuss.hail.is/u/orr)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/vcf-parsing-error-float-instead-of-int/1271/1 "2020-02-05T15:41:25Z")
Can I specify not to parse the culprit field (DP\_MEDIAN) at all? or even not to parse the info field at all? or to parse it as a float?
Thanks!
The error is :
…
VCFParseError: invalid character ‘.’ in integer literal
EDIAN=131;GQ\_MEDIAN=164;DP\_MEDIAN=24.5;DP\_HIST\_ALT=52|201|434|701|671|63 …
^
‘info’: struct {
FS: array,
HOM: int32,
GC: array,
AD: array,
ADF: array,
ADR: array,
DP: int32,
MQ: int32,
DPF: int32,
AC: array,
AN: int32,
GQX\_MEDIAN: array,
GQ\_MEDIAN: array,
DP\_MEDIAN: array,
DP\_HIST\_ALT: array
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### Author:  [@tpoterba](https://discuss.hail.is/u/tpoterba)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/vcf-parsing-error-float-instead-of-int/1271/2 "2020-02-05T15:45:14Z")
I think the core problem is that the header is wrong. You can either edit the header to indicate that DP\_MEDIAN is a float, or if the VCF is large, extract the header alone, edit it, and use that in `import_vcf` with the `header_file` argument.
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### Author:  [@orr](https://discuss.hail.is/u/orr)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/vcf-parsing-error-float-instead-of-int/1271/3 "2020-02-05T16:09:46Z")
Thanks! `header_file` seems to work, still parsing and writing.