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Memo CP-D/685
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14 February 2011
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N. Otsuka

Subject:

Free text in DATA section?

Sometimes compilers forget to put heading and/or unit codes for a data field. M.
Bossant (NEA Data Bank) prepared a list of subentries where extra characters
undefined by the SUBENT record (N1) exist.
ExampleSUBENT
BIB
REACTION…
ENDBIB
COMMONE
MEV
6.13
ENDCOMMON
DATA
ENMEV
10.36010.360…
10.375
10.39010.39010.390

T0246006
20040721
724(8-O-16(A,INL)8-O-16,PAR,DA,G,RSD)

ANG-RSL
ADEG
17.

ANG
ADEG
0.
15.
75.
0.
15.
30.

24
043
DATA-ERR
ERR-DIG
PER-CENT
NO-DIM
45.
0.1
30354
DATA
NO-DIM
1.74
2.06
0.99
2.02
2.12
2.26

0.21
0.22

T024600600001
T024600600002
T024600600003
T024600600027
T024600600028
T024600600029
T024600600030
T024600600031
T024600600032
T024600600033
T024600600034
T024600600035
T024600600036
T024600600037
T024600600047
T024600600048
T024600600049
T024600600050…

Probably this compiler forgets a heading and unit code in the 4th data field in theDATA section. This is not recognized as an error by ZCHEX. Number of columns
given in the DATA record (N1) is 3, and programs may skip the 4th column assumingthat characters in the 4th field as free text.
It is not very obvious from the Formats Manual if free text is allowed in the DATA
section. The following sentence in the EXFOR Formats Manual (Chapter 4) however
indicates free text is now allowed:
Records are not packed; rather, individual point information is kept on individualrecords; i.e., if only four fields are associated with a data line, the remaining twofields are left blank, and, in the case of the data table, the information for the nextline begins on the following record.
It may help some programs (e.g., ZORDER which has to determine N1 value.) if freetext is explicitly forbidden in DATA (and also COMMON) section. Addition of thefollowing rule into the EXFOR Formats Manual is proposed:

Free text
Free text may not be entered in the COMMON and DATA sections.
The list from M. Bossant was analysed and the result is summarized below. Note that
D0032.004 has been already corrected in PRELIM.D074. Checking of free text in theCOMMON and DATA sections has been already implemented JANIS TRANS
Checker.
Subentry
10410.004
21532.003
23045.005
23045.006
30991.005
A0837.005
A1058.002
A1387.004
C1188.005
D0032.004
D0086.007
D0276.006
D0452.012
D0584.005
D5038.001
D6083.005
E0801.005
E0801.007
E0801.009
E0801.010
E0801.011
E0801.012
E0801.013
E0801.014
E0801.015
E0801.016
E0801.017
E0801.018
E0801.019
E0801.020
E0801.021
E1089.028
E1200.006
E1200.010
E1200.012
E1369.027
E1369.032
E1426.018
E1426.020

Section
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
COMMONDATACOMMONDATACOMMON
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA

DetailN1=8, but values also in the 9th column
N1=5, but values also in the 6th column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=3, but a value also in the 4th column
N1=2, but a value also in the 3rd column
N1=2, should be 3.
N1=1, should be 2
N1=4, but values also in the 5th column
N1=1, but a value also in the 2nd column
N1=3, but values also in the 4th column
N1=3, but a value also in the 4th column
N1=3, but values also in the 4th column
N1=2, but a value also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3 and 4th columns
N1=4, but values also in the 5th column
N1=2, but a value also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=3, but values also in the 4th column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but a value also in the 3rd column

E1482.009
E1542.006
E1686.023
E1686.024
E1713.007
E1713.021
E1713.025
E1713.029
E1756.043
E1793.004
E1889.006
E2095.003
E2109.004
O1802.003
T0104.002
T0104.003
T0200.006
T0246.006

DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
COMMONCOMMON
DATA
DATA

N1=3, but values also in the 4th column
N1=3, but values also in the 4th column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=3, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but a value also in the 3rd column
N1=2, but a value also in the 3rd column
N1=1, but a value also in the 2nd column
N1=3, but values also in the 4th column
N1=3, but a value also in the 4th column
N1=2, but values also in the 3rd column
N1=5, but values also in the 6th column
N1=4, but a decimal point in the 5th columnN1=1, but a value also in the 2nd column
N1=1, but a value also in the 2nd column
N1=5, but a value also in the 6th column
N1=4, but values also in the 4th column

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