Appendix 10Event Logging File Format; Unicode Text File/Csv File - Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-R Series User Manual

Appendix 10
This section explains the formats of an event logging file that is created by the high speed data logger module.

Unicode text file/CSV file

Format specification
Format specifications are as follows:
Item name
Delimiter
Linefeed code
Character code
Character encoding method
Field data
Number of lines
File size
Format overview
The format of Unicode text file is as follows.
For a CSV file, replace the delimiter of each item (\t) with the comma (,).
Date information should serially output from upper to lower in date column. (For example: Date should be output when
specifying month and minutes.)
File information
Comment line
Header
Data type
information line
Data name line
Start data line
Repeated data
Data
End data line
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Appendix 10 Event Logging File Format
Event Logging File Format
Description
Unicode text file
Tab
CRLF (0x0D, 0x0A)
Unicode
UTF-16 (little endian)
Not enclosed in double quotes (").
Maximum 100004 lines (data lines + 4)
Maximum 16777216 bytes
The size can be specified within the range of (10 to 16384)  1024 bytes.
File type File version
RD81DL96
[EVENT]
\t
_1
line
Event test
CR+LF
SHORT
DATETIME \t
[DEC.0]
TIME \t NUMBER
2016/1/1
\t 0
10:15:20
\t
2016/1/1
\t 20
14:27:00
Date column Event number
column
Data type Data name line
information line
number
number
3 4
\t \t
STRING SHORT
\t \t
[32] [DEC.0]
\t EVENT \t STATUS
RD81DL96
\t \t 1
Start
\t \t
Temperature
\t \t 1
abnormality
Event name Occurrence type
column column
CSV file
Comma (,)
ASCII

• Not enclosed in double quotes (").
• The data cannot use double quotes (") and commas (,).
• However, commas (,) can be included in the CSV
output settings for "Date column". In this case, commas
(,) are also included in the data type information line,
data name line, and data line.
Data start line Comment line
number number
5 2
\t \t CR+LF
STRING STRING
\t \t
CR+LF
[32] [16664]
\t COMMENT \t VALUES
CR+LF
\t \t CR+LF
\t \t CR+LF
CR+LF
\t Occurrence \t D0=300
Occurrence
Monitoring data
comment column
value column