6.2 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.
• examples:
  col2sdds input.col output.sdds  
  col2sdds data.col data.sdds -fixMplNames  
      

• 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 column file are converted into SDDS parameters. The column table is converted into SDDS tabular data, all columns being 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.