Hello!
I’m writing an app that will let me “translate” from one target to another, essentially allowing me to re-position patches but generate a CGATS file that “looks” like a different one…
Source: patches in a different order than the sample
Sample: patches in a reccognized order, like a normal P2P.
Destination: the data from the source patches in the order of the sample.
This re-ordering is not difficult, and the manipulation of the data itself is trivial but what I’m finding is that a sample of several CGATS (.txt) files from different measurement devices (i1iO, iSiS, etc…) build the files slightly differently.
What I want to know is if there’s a specification for what information is required in the file, how the file itself is structured, in what order the keywords come in, etc…
For instance, the data format is a tab-delimited list of fields on a single line that define what values belong to what fields. It is preceded by “BEGIN_DATA_FORMAT” and is followed by “END_DATA_FORMAT” so that’s pretty clear. What I don’t know is; can there be multiple definitions? Can there be multiple data sets between the “BEGIN_DATA” and “END_DATA”? Most files have two KEYWORD fields defined, SampleID and SAMPLE_NAME; are these always present? are there other valid keywords?
So I guess I’m looking for a document specification similar to the ICC.1:2010 document that describes profiles, but for these CGATS files instead.
Does such a thing exist?
-Brian