col2sdds

• description: Converts a file in column self-describing format to SDDS. This is of interest to APS users only, some of whom still have programs that generate column-format files.
• synopsis:
  col2sdds inputFile outputFile [-fixMplNames]
• files: inputFile is a column-format file, the SDDS equivalent of which is written to outputFile. The ``auxiliary values'' of the columns file are converted into SDDS parameters. The column table is converted into SDDS tabular data, all columns begin double precision except the ``row label'', which becomes a string column.
• switches:
  • -fixMplNames -- Requests that any column or parameter names in the input file that contain mpl character set escape sequences be ``fixed''. This results in simpler names. The escape sequences are always retained in definition of the symbol for each column or parameter, and hence will appear on graphs as expected.
• author: M. Borland, ANL/APS.