Subject: Re: [APDL] *vread with mixed character/number array. Author: Fernand Thomassy Date: 2002-08-26 11:19:00John and all,
This may be silly but ... I've become interested in XML lately and consider myself pretty ignorant on the subject. From what little I've read it seems that we could benefit greatly if ANSYS supported this type of data formatting. XML support would take care of all the issues we've been discussing about comments, headers and arbitrary sizes.
My personal interest stems from the fact that my primary kinematics/dynamics software, ADAMS, is moving towards standardizing on XML.
Anyone out there have a more informed opinion on XML?
Kind regards . . . Fern
Fernand A. Thomassy, P.E. Principal Engineer Engine Design Section Southwest Research Institute mailto:fernand.thomassy@s... http://enginedesign.swri.org
> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Miller [mailto:eric@p...] > Sent: Monday, 26 August, 2002 10:00 AM > To: 'xansys@yahoogroups.com' > Subject: RE: [xansys] Re: [APDL] *vread with mixed character/number > array.
> John,
> Yes! Anything along these lines, or anything else you might > add would be scarfed up by those of us out here who find APDL > so useful.
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Swanson [mailto:john.swanson@a...] > > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 4:57 AM > > To: 'xansys@yahoogroups.com' > > Subject: RE: [xansys] Re: [APDL] *vread with mixed character/number > > array.
> > How about for the first pass: > > 1. Ignore blank lines > > 2. Ignore all characters from ! to end of line > > a. If ! is in column 1, treat as blank line (ignore) > > 3. Ignore lines which have invalid data in any numeric field > > 4. Set _RETURN to the last read line number > > This would occur it the number of items to be read per line is entered > > in field 11 (the field after nskip).
> > I am also looking for adding to the *GET,Par,FILE the > > ability to find the next line in a file containing a (up to 32 char) > > string. This might return the first 32 characters of the line > > containing the string, and set _RETURN to the line which contains > > the string. This would facilitate finding data in a file.
> > A second phase might be to add a "include" set of characters > > in field 12 and a "ignore" set of characters in field 13, where > > include and ignore would be based on the character in column 1. > > Is there anyone out there other than Bob who would be interested > > in this?
> > John Swanson > > Swanson Analysis Services, Inc.