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Note that you can publish/subscribe to pcl::PointCloud types directly using pcl_ros; no need to write your own conversion to/from PointCloud2. PointCloud2 and pcl::PointCloud were designed in tandem, so in general PointCloud2 can hold any data expressible as a pcl::PointCloud and vice versa.

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