Reserved Words, Header, and Comments

The table below shows which words are reserved and must not be used.

Reserved Words	Reserved Words	Reserved Words
ARRAY	DWORD	UCHAR
BINARY	FLOAT	ULONGLONG
BINARY_RESOURCE	SDWORD	UNICODE
CHAR	STRING	WORD
CSTRING	SWORD
DOUBLE	TEMPLATE

 

The variable-length header is compulsory and must be at the beginning of the data stream. The header contains the following data.

Type	Required	Size (in bytes)	Value	Description
Magic Number	x	4	xof
Version Number	x	2	03	Major version 3
			03	Minor version 3
Format Type	x	4	txt	Text File
			bin	Binary file
			tzip	MSZip compressed text file
			bzip	MSZip compressed binary file
Float Size	x	0064		64-bit floats
	x	"0032"		32-bit floats

 

The values in the table are delimited by quotes to call attention to the number of characters in each value. Those with 4 bytes contain four characters, those with 2 bytes contain two characters.

Comments are applicable only in text files. Comments can occur anywhere in the data stream. A comment begins with either C++ style double-slashes (//), or a pound sign (#). The comment runs to the next new line. The following example shows valid comments.

#  This is a comment.
// This is another comment.

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