Introduction
A file in accordance with the geotechnical exchange format can be divided into two parts: the header and the data block. The header describes how the registered data is organised in directly readable text. Keywords are used for this purpose. A keyword is preceded by a ‘#’ character. A ‘=’ character follows the keyword. The keyword is therefore enclosed between the ‘#’ and the ‘=’. Some examples of correct and incorrect keywords are given in Table 1.
Table 1: Examples of correct and incorrect keywords
Keyword | Evaluation |
#COLUMN = 2 | Correct |
#COlumN = 2 | Correct |
# COLUMN = 2 | Correct |
#column= 2 | Correct |
#Column = 2 | Correct |
#COLUMN 2 | Incorrect, the equals sign is missing |
COLUMN= 2 | Incorrect, the # is missing |
#CO LUMN = 2 | Incorrect, spaces within a keyword |
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