<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:10 AM, <a href="mailto:rrebel@rfecllc.com">rrebel@rfecllc.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rrebel@rfecllc.com">rrebel@rfecllc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">By searching the documents I found that the<br>
order the options are given, matters. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. The reason we have order matter is so that we can read different fields with different frame ranges from different data sources into different plots. I'll point out that order matters in the command line usage documentation (-h).</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">This is a little unusual so. First<br>
the datafile and then the options in the right order. (-n in front tof<br>
the plot definitions).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
But on top of this you have to set the default settings for the reader<br>
in a way that it can read the file without error. This means you have to<br>
set the delimiter, the data start line, the comment symbol's and the<br>
line where the headers are as the default settings. Otherwise the reader<br>
fails and no data are available. Unfortunately there are no command line<br>
options to specify all that.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Should be possible to add. Can you submit a wishlist from debug->report_bug...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
In my opinion the ASCII reader is to intollerant on the format.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. I've though it would be cool to introduce huristics to select between csv and white space delimeted files, except that we can also accept ',' as the decimal point, and we can accept fixed width colums, so a file like</div>
<div><br></div><div>1,12,23,3</div><div><br></div><div>is ambiguous (ie, does it mean, 1, 12, 23, 3 or 1.1, 2.2, 3.3). There might be other formal ambiguities.</div><div><br></div><div>It might be good instead to use file extensions to aid in the decisions. We could ship with a few pre-defined (like .csv) and then let the user define their own... thoughts? This might also be worth a wishlist.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">The ".kst" file seems to be a real bug.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes indeed it is... of the "wow! I completely forgot to add that!" category.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Anyway for more complex automation it would be nice that onealso could<br>
specify a script on the command line to run. This would be the most<br>
powerful and flexible way for automation since the program generating<br>
the data could also generate the script for post processing and<br>
displaying the data.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can you propose a use case for this? We are thinking of diving into scripting, and want to make sure our design is useful.</div><div> </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br>
Best Regards<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Reimund Rebel<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your comments!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div class="h5">-- </div></div></blockquote></div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136, 136, 136)">C. Barth Netterfield<br>University of Toronto<br>416-845-0946</span><div>
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136, 136, 136)"><br></span></div><br>