Input Data File Description

Signature

The signature must be set to the value of the tagLine field if the definition file contains this element.

 

Input Records

A record corresponds to a data line in the input file. Each line is composed of fields separated by a tabulation. Lines area separated by the CR/LF characters. A record is divided in various parts, as shown below:

[identifier] [time stamping] [data..........]

The signification of each bloc is as follows:

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identifier: identifies the record in the case where various record elements can be found in the definition file. If only one record is defined, and if it doesn’t have a when attribute, this bloc is absent

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time stamping: composed of one (elapsed time in the second with the format: ssss.sss) or two fields (date with format: yyyy/mm/dd and time with format hh:mm:ss.sss)

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data: set of columns whose number must be the same as the number of columns described in the definition file