Specify the type of data in the input file. Valid types are: ASCII, BYTE, UBYTE, INTEGER, UINTEGER, LONG, ULONG, FLOAT, DOUBLE, INT64 and UINT64. The table below shows the ranges for each type. For multi-channel binary files, FILE_TYPE can take a list of binary file types, and import those mixed types. Defaults to ASCII.
|
Name |
Type |
Range |
|
BYTE |
Signed Byte |
-128 to 127 |
|
SBYTE |
Signed Byte |
-128 to +127 |
|
UBYTE |
Unsigned Byte |
0 to 255 |
|
INTEGER |
Signed Integer |
-32768 to + 32768 |
|
SINT |
Signed Integer |
-32768 to +32767 |
|
UINT |
Unsigned Integer |
0 to 65536 |
|
LONG |
4-byte Signed Integer |
-2147483648 to +2147483647 |
|
ULONG |
4-byte Unsigned Integer |
0 to +4294967295 |
|
FLOAT |
4-byte Floating Point |
-10^37 to 10^38 |
|
DOUBLE |
8-byte Floating Point |
-10^307 to +10^308 |
|
INT64 |
8-byte Signed Integer |
9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to +9,223,372,036,854,775,807 |
|
UINT64 |
8-byte Unsigned Integer |
0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 |
|
ASCII |
Human Readable (text) |
-10^307 to +10^308 |
Specify the internal data type for DADiSP to convert and store a Series in a Dataset. Valid types are: ASCII, BYTE, UBYTE, INTEGER, UINTEGER, LONG, ULONG, INT64, UINT64, FLOAT, and DOUBLE. The table above shows the ranges for each type. Whenever DADiSP pages to disk, it will be written in the type specified by DATA_TYPE. All calculations will still be performed in double precision. Defaults to DOUBLE.
Set to 1 to swap the bytes as per the binary type specified in FILE_TYPE during import, or 0 for no byteswap. Defaults to 0.