1Blurb:: 2Selects free-form tabular file format for experiment data 3 4Description:: 5 6A freeform tabular file is whitespace-separated text file with no 7leading header row and no leading columns. For experiment data files, 8each row contains data for configuration variables, observatiions, 9and/or observation errors, depending on context. 10 11<b> Default Behavior </b> 12 13By default, Dakota imports tabular experiment data files in annotated 14format. Specify \c freeform to instead select this format. 15 16<b> Usage Tips </b> 17 18\li Prior to October 2011, calibration and surrogate data files were 19in free-form format. They now default to \c annotated format, though \c 20freeform remains an option. 21 22\li When importing tabular data, a warning will be generated if a 23specific number of data are expected, but extra is found and an error 24generated when there is insufficient data. 25 26Topics:: file_formats 27Examples:: 28 29Import a free-form experimental data file containing raw experiment 30data in a calibration study 31 32\verbatim 33responses 34 ... 35 scalar_data_file 'shock_experiment.dat' 36 freeform 37\endverbatim 38 39Example data file with two measured quantities, three experiments: 40\verbatim 41 18.23 83.21 42 34.14 93.24 43 22.41 88.92 44\endverbatim 45 46Theory:: 47Faq:: 48See_Also:: 49