Requirements

OLAF Requirements for General Tables

• Data must be in an ASCII table.
• Each column must be a fixed width. If not all values in a column are the same width, spaces should be used to pad all values to the same size.
• Decimal numbers must aligned on the decimal. Spaces should be used before and/or after the number so that all values are the same width.
• Integers must be right-aligned.
• Text values must be left-aligned.
• The Tab-character cannot be used in the file.
• No blank lines may exist in the file.