Add delimiter option in OBS outputs

[ougx]

It could be preferable to read space delimited file for some programs such as PEST. It will be great that we can add this option in OBS packages.

[langevin-usgs]

I'm pretty sure you can write an instruction file for PEST that supports CSV files. Is this not the case?

[jtwhite79]

Example instruction file for two obs and two output times, assuming the csv has a header file:

pif ~
l2 ~,~ !obs1_1! ~,~ !obs2_1!
l1 ~,~ !obs1_2! ~,~ !obs2_2!
...

(pest and pest++ are both optimized to read large csv files)

[ougx]

yes, you can; however you need to specify comma like ~,~ where ~ is the PEST maker. It can become very redundant when there are many obs in one line. It will not breaking anything but it is more convenient like the example below:

comparing
l1 w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w !MR1408452T199308! w !MR1408452T199309! w !MR1408452T199310! w w w !MR1408452T199401! w !MR1408452T199402! w !MR1408452T199403!
vs
l1 ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ !MR1408452T199308! ~,~ !MR1408452T199309! ~,~ !MR1408452T199310! ~,~ ~,~ ~,~ !MR1408452T199401! ~,~ !MR1408452T199402! ~,~ !MR1408452T199403!