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

["Ryan_Element" <ryan_element@xxxxxxxxx>]

Linda, here is the warning text from my .ERR file:

   ** 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


I will submit this to the help desk now. Thanks for your help!

Ryan

--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Linda Lawrie <linda@...> wrote:
>
> You don't say what the warning is.  Nor provide any example (examples 
> should be submitted to the helpdesk so we can incorporate this).
> 
> I can't offhand think of a warning of this nature that would not 
> cause a fatal but obviously you have encountered it.
> 
> There is not control for a user to be able to change the 
> warning/severe/fatal nature of EnergyPlus messages -- we have not 
> considered it before.
> 
> At 10:52 AM 10/11/2012, 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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