Files in the EasyQ file format are expected to be text files. The recommended timezone to be configured is (GMT+1). The input files for the parser are header files (.hdr) describing the data files and the data files themselves (.sen or .dat). The locationId is retrieved from the filename. If there is a space in the filename, the locationId will be taken from the part before the first space.
Structure of the header file
The parser seeks the position in the header file where the variables are defined. This section always starts with 'Data file format' and a separator line. The next line contains the reference to the data file. The parser will ignore the specified the absolute file path but only scan whether the extension .dat or .sen has been provided. The lines following the path describe the columns in the data file. The following sample illustrates a piece of a typical header section. Each line contains a 1-based column index, followed by the header name, and finally the unit. The parser expects fixed column-lengths.
Data file format --------------------------------------------------------------------- [D:\easyQ\dataeasyq\KLV.dat] 1 Month (1-12) 2 Day (1-31) 3 Year 4 Hour (0-23) 5 Minute (0-59) 6 Second (0-59) 7 VariableX (m/s) .. ... ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- [D:\easyQ\dataeasyq\KLV.sen] 1 Month (1-12) 2 Day (1-31) 3 Year 4 Hour (0-23) 5 Minute (0-59) 6 Second (0-59)
Structure of the data files
The following snippet illustrates a sample data file. The first six columns are used to set the time step for the measurements.
03 19 2010 13 30 00 00000000 10110001 12.3 1444.5 10.32 6216 0 0.120 0.014 132 126 0.113 -0.008 119 113 0.118 -0.001 109 104 03 19 2010 13 45 00 00000000 10110001 12.4 1445.0 10.44 6194 0 0.114 0.012 127 123 0.115 0.008 117 112 0.076 0.017 108 104 03 19 2010 14 00 00 00000000 10110001 12.4 1445.4 10.56 6198 0 0.115 0.001 128 124 0.124 0.007 118 114 0.100 0.005 109 105 03 19 2010 14 15 00 00000000 10110001 12.4 1446.0 10.70 6197 0 0.070 0.011 123 118 0.091 -0.007 115 110 0.114 0.002 106 102 03 19 2010 14 30 00 00000000 10110001 12.4 1446.4 10.80 6200 0 0.102 0.001 128 123 0.113 0.004 120 115 0.108 0.003 110 105 03 19 2010 14 45 00 00000000 10110001 12.4 1446.7 10.87 6200 0 0.109 0.010 128 123 0.085 0.000 119 114 0.122 -0.002 109 104 03 19 2010 15 00 00 00000000 10110001 12.4 1447.0 10.94 6217 0 0.061 0.003 130 126 0.090 -0.011 120 115 0.082 0.002 111 106 03 19 2010 15 15 00 00000000 10110001 12.4 1447.3 11.00 6215 0 0.092 0.001 129 124 0.097 -0.008 120 116 0.110 0.004 111 106
