Chapter 14 Custom Report Formatting
Field Designator Specification Overview
The field designator is in the format \ANNF where:
\
=
A
=
!
+
_
$
*
@
#
S
NN
=
F
=
.
<
>
|
[
]
=
Looping Indicators
Certain data within the report output may be repeated by surrounding the repeated
characters in the definition with braces "{}" and indicating a looping type. The looping
type is specified by the letter D, G, H, or W immediately following the starting brace "{."
The braces and looping type are not output in the report. Loop nesting is allowed to a
depth of at least 3. The following repeat loops are provided.
{D
Repeat all the logged data for a location
{G
Reset the General Purpose Index, increment and repeat for all gases
{H
Repeat for all logged locations that are sequential and exactly the same except
for the location and the data logged.
{W
Reset the General Purpose Index, increment and repeat for all wavelengths
Start of field designator
the type of field
= Special functions
= Set general purpose index
= Tab to column
= User entries
= General configuration information
= Application data
= Measurement data
= Measurement statistics
the field number (2 digits, right justified, leading zeros)
an optional format modifier
= Normal formatting
= Left justify data within field with trailing spaces
= Right justify data within field with trailing spaces
= Center data within field with leading and trailing spaces
= Do not output spaces from the last nonspace character in the field
to the end ofthe field (shorten unused field characters)
= Do not output spaces from the first field character to the first
nonspace character in the field
= Same as both < and >
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