File organization #9
Description
The output files are not organized in the same way. Indeed, most of the time the files have a title on the first line, then the column names separated with a tab and then the data, as we can see below (an exemple of a actetranspiration.out file):
actual evapotranspiration [mm] for all sub-basins (MAP-IDs)
Year Day Timestep 15 69
2000 1 1 3.832 4.268
2000 2 1 2.744 3.394
2000 3 1 3.295 3.382
2000 4 1 3.295 3.161
2000 5 1 2.640 2.797
2000 6 1 2.226 2.722
2000 7 1 2.580 3.061
2000 8 1 2.831 3.195
2000 9 1 2.493 3.631
2000 10 1 3.104 3.610
2000 11 1 2.919 3.206
2000 12 1 3.324 3.529
2000 13 1 3.639 3.856
So, when a file does not have this configuration, the code does not work. Indeed, sometimes we have some files without title and with spaces instead of tab between the columns. See below (an exemple of a lake_outflow_r.out file):
Year, day, hour, outflow_r(m**3/timestep)
2000 1 1 16640.795 19944.051 24902.533 33133.648 34511.082
2000 2 1 35829.051 42969.047 53631.609 71390.977 76124.820
2000 3 1 55556.066 66613.492 83161.625 110666.297 119061.172
2000 4 1 74896.547 89801.227 112116.422 149186.188 160068.328
2000 5 1 98237.000 117803.281 147059.781 195704.938 209445.484
This second case occurs at least for the following files:
- lake_xxx.out
- River_Flow.out
- res_xxx.out
I was wondering if it is easy to change the way of how these files are written. If it is, it would be great to do it as we can compare all the files. Otherwise, I can try to adapt the code: it will be a long task but I think I can do it.