Proposed New Format for 0D ASCII files

The existing format for 0D files is complex and problematic for reading and writing the files.
A much simpler comma separated variable format is proposed with the following benefits
  1. simplify the format of the file
  2. allow creation and viewing from spreadsheets

    TOK

    UPDATE

    DATE

    SHOT

    TIME

    …

    JET

    20031201

    20001006

    53521

    1.00E+01

    …

    JET

    20031201

    20001006

    53521

    1.10E+01

    …

  3. simplify reading and writing code

Proposed New file format

The CSV file format would be one line of header followed by one line per timeslice:

TOK,UPDATE,DATE,SHOT,TIME,…

JET,20031201,20001006,53521,1.00E+01,…

JET,20031201,20001006,53521,1.10E+01,…

The only restriction would be that the strings between the commas should not exceed 10 characters. Padding with spaces is not required between commas.

Example reading and writing routines exist for Fortran, C and IDL.