[EnergyPlus_Support] How To Change Warning into Severe or Fatal Error? (schedule CSline endings)

["Ryan_Element" <ryan_element@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

I would like to change certain energyplus-warnings into fatal errors, so that instead of running after issuing a certain warning, the simulation will be terminated.

I found the Output:PreprocessorMessage object in the I/O reference, but I'm not sure how to use it - or even if it's the right approach.

WHY would I want this, you ask? Because there is one warning (IMO) that should be an error, and should cause the simulation to terminate...I use the schedule:file object to reference several schedules stored in a CSV file. Occasionally I edit this CSV file using excel on my apple computer. When I save the CSV file in excel, the line-endings are set as macintosh-text-file-line-endings. After saving the CSV with mac-based-line endings, I run my energyplus simulation on my apple computer. Sadly, energyplus cannot read text files with mac-based line-endings, so it issues a warning to that effect, but continues to run - WITHOUT the schedules it was intended to use.

I can circumvent this issue by re-saving the CSV file in a text editor and specifying that it should have unix-based-line-endings. With unix-based-line-endings, the file is readable by energyplus, and my simulation works properly. This is truly annoying, as I edit the CSV file regularly, and don't want to go through the additional steps of re-saving it with unix-based line-endings each time. It is also annoying because IF I forget to re-save the CSV file, the simulation still runs without an error, and I don't realize that anything is amiss until I view the bogus results, ponder why the results are bogus, remember to check on the CSV file line-endings, and so on.

Thanks for your help

Ryan



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