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[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: How To Change Warning into Fatal Error? (schedule:file CSV line endings)

For completeness, here is the error message:

   ** Warning ** ProcessScheduleInput: Schedule:File="OFFICE OCCUPANCY" less than specified hourly values read from file.
   **   ~~~   ** ..Specified Number of Hourly Values=8760 Actual number of hourly values included=2


--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ryan_Element" <ryan_element@...> wrote:
>
> 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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