Appendix 9 Data Logging File Format; Unicode Text File/Csv File - Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-R Series User Manual

Appendix 9
This section explains the formats of a data logging file that is created by a high speed data logger module.

Unicode text file/CSV file

Format specification
Format specifications are as follows:
Item name
Delimiter
Linefeed code
Character code
Character encoding method
Field data
Number of lines
File size
Format overview
The format of Unicode text file is as follows.
For a CSV file, replace the delimiter of each item (\t) with the comma (,).
The date, index, and trigger information column (shaded portions) can be specified not to be output. If they are not output, the
items are left aligned.
Date information should serially output from upper to lower in date column. (For example: Date should be output when
specifying month and minutes.)
File information
[LOGGING]
line
Logging test
Comment line
Header
Data type
information line
Data name line
Start data line
Repeated data
Data
End data line
Date column
Data Logging File Format
Description
Unicode text file
Tab
CRLF (0x0D, 0x0A)
Unicode
UTF-16 (little endian)
Not enclosed in double quotes (").
Maximum 100004 lines (data lines + 4)
Maximum 16777216 bytes
The size can be specified within the range of (10 to 16384)  1024 bytes.
File type File version Data type
information line
number
RD81DL96
\t \t
_1
CR+LF
SHORT
DATETIME INDEX
\t \t
[DEC.0]
TIME \t INDEX \t
2016/1/1
\t 1 \t
10:15:20
\t \t
2016/1/1
\t 100 \t
14:27:00
Index column Data column
CSV file
Comma (,)
ASCII

• Not enclosed in double quotes (").
• The data cannot use double quotes (") and commas (,).
• However, commas (,) can be included in the CSV
output settings for "Date column". In this case, commas
(,) are also included in the data type information line,
data name line, and data line.
Data name line Data start line
number number
3 \t 4 \t
FLOAT
\t \t
[EXP.3]
DATA1 \t DATA2 \t
123 \t 3.567 \t
\t \t
97 \t 1.987 \t
Data column

Appendix 9 Data Logging File Format

Comment line
number
5 \t 2 CR+LF
BIT[1,0] TRIGGER
\t \t
\t DATA256 \t Trigger
\t 1 \t *
\t \t
\t 0 \t -
Data column Trigger information
column
APPX
A
CR+LF
CR+LF
CR+LF
CR+LF
CR+LF
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