Refactoring in progress; contains untested utility functions and may have breakage.
Continued refactoring progress (still not tested to work)- incorporate Mandar's improved handling of grep command, plus more graceful error handling
Refactoring 90% complete; example usage not yet updated.
Refactoring complete. Add utility functions to ease time series creation, improve variable naming, and update usage examples.
Ignore swap files. Prep branch for merging.
Get rid of swap file
Merge branch 'general_parser'

Conflicts:
	parsers/parse_table2_tabfiles.py
Manually added Mandar's improved grep code and otherwise overrode with branch
Major refactoring of code to enable subclassing the parser for specific files; updated convenience functions and examples