[Equest-users] Is there a way to extract specific data from sim result?

[Yf Sun]

Hi Joe

Im trying to do configuration perturbation analyse like you and your
colleague did before, there's large amount of simulations to do and thats
why i need to automate some data process, finally i got a solution from the
specialist like you.

Thanks!


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Joe Huang <
yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com> wrote:

>  As others have pointed out, eQUEST runs DOE-2.2 which outputs a text
> file originally renamed *.OUT in DOE-2 but now renamed *.SIM in eQUEST.
> As a long-time DOE-2 user, I've written lots of awk scripts to extract out
> the variables of interest from the *.OUT/*.SIM files.  In fact, I only look
> at the *.OUT/*.SIM file during the debugging phase of a project, or when
> some results look suspicious.
>
> I don't know how many people still use awk, but I've found it absolutely
> indispensible in my work (no exaggeration).  Basically, awk is a scripting
> language with C-like syntax, but more contextual than formal languages like
> C or Fortran, i.e., you don't have to define variable types, set array
> sizes, etc.
>
> When I use awk to extract data from a *.OUT/*.SIM file, I basically do a
> pattern search for the title of the report (SS-A, SS-H, etc.), and when I
> find it, I start counting lines.  Then, when I get to the correct line
> number, I pull out the variables of interest, which in awk are simply the
> strings with a blank as the "field separator".  I've done this so many
> times that it takes me only a few minutes to write an awk script for what
> you're trying to do.   For your info, I'm attaching a sample awk script
> that I use to pull out the heating and cooling loads and peak loads from an
> SS-H file.
>
> Awk has been around since the 1980's.  I'm sure you can do the same with
> Ppython, Perl,  VB, etc., but I've never felt the need because awk worked
> so well for me.
>
> Joe
>
>
> On 5/21/2013 6:48 PM, Yf Sun wrote:
>
> Hi,dear Equesters!
> Im currently doing my ph.d research using equest to analyse building
> energy performance, i found its time consuming to find the data i need from
> sim result, as the data i need almost the same for every simulation, do you
> know a way to extract the specific text data(for importing to excel)
> quickly by using some third party program maybe?
>
>  --
>  Best regards
>  Ivan
>
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