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Hello,

I have a plain data file (generated from my own C program with .dat format) which consists of 6 columns separated by spaces for the phase space data of many particles (column wise: x px y py t dp/p). I want to run elegant using SDDS_BEAM command. For this I tried to convert this plain data file (3000 particles) using SDDS conversion utility with following command:

csv2sdds initial_temp.dat initial_temp.sdds -columnData=name=x,type=double,unit=m -columnData=name=xp,type=double -columnData=name=y,type=double,unit=m -columnData=name=yp,type=double -columnData=name=t,type=double,unit=s -columnData=name=p,type=double,unit=m$be$nc -maxRows=2999 -separator=" "

But this conversion is not correct. I could found a message like this (in any editor):

"initial_temp.sdds" [Incomplete last line][converted] 219 lines, 249153 characters

Please let me know where I am doing wrong?

Thanks and regards,
Amal.

Amal,

I don't see an obvious problem with the command. Can you post the input file?

--Michael

Michael !!

Here is the attached file of data......

Regards,
Amal.

Try this:

plaindata2sdds initial_temp.dat initial_temp.sdds -column=x,double,unit=m -column=xp,double -column=y,double,unit=m -column=yp,double -column=t,double,unit=s -column=p,double,unit=m -noRowCount

I don't think the csv2sdds program works well with variable length whitespace.

Amal,

Bob is correct. The problem is that csv2sdds is kind of restrictive in the format. Using plaindata2sdds worked for me.

--Michael

Thanks Bob & Michael......It worked nicely.......

Regards,
Amal.