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The last command in '''Edit''' menu is ''dayfile.txt''. This is a text editor, and works best when at full screen. | The last command in '''Edit''' menu is ''dayfile.txt''. This is a text editor, and works best when at full screen. | ||
Click the ''Help'' button for detailed instructions. Cumulus Help is comprehensive. | Click the ''Help'' button for detailed instructions. Cumulus Help is comprehensive. | ||
If there is an error in ''dayfile.txt'', then it is most likely to be found when you are viewing its data on one of the screens for editing the monthly, annual or all-time extremes. Cumulus will illuminate its ''Error'' light if it finds an error in such cases and tell you the line/row number of the first found error, together with some details of the error it found. For example, if a row is blank, a row is duplicated, a field is corrupted, a field does not have an acceptable value, or a field is missing so subsequent fields are to the left of where they should be. | |||
You can use this editor to: | You can use this editor to: | ||
*correct individual values by overtyping, | *correct individual values by overtyping, | ||
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*use '''insert''' key to add one or more missing rows (complete days) manually, | *use '''insert''' key to add one or more missing rows (complete days) manually, | ||
*use '''Create missing''' button to insert missing rows (complete days) by reading from [[Monthly_log_files]] and automatically calculating the best approximations for each field for those missing days. | *use '''Create missing''' button to insert missing rows (complete days) by reading from [[Monthly_log_files]] and automatically calculating the best approximations for each field for those missing days. | ||
If you do have a 'duplicate' error, you need to decide which row to ''delete'', and whether to copy any values from that row into the row you are keeping to ensure the correct extremes are retained. | If you do have a 'duplicate' error, you need to decide which row to ''delete'', and whether to copy any values from that row into the row you are keeping to ensure the correct extremes are retained. | ||
As an alternative to manual line ''insert'', you may wish to use a procedure for importing, and processing, pre-Cumulus observations into [[Monthly_log_files]]. Once there is data for required days in monthly logs, ''Create missing'' can insert the new rows for those days previously missing in dayfile.txt. | |||
For ''Create missing'' a list of inserted records is produced in [[dayfileeditlog.txt]]. If just some fields are wrong in a particular row (meteorological day) on day file, then there is a [[Monthly_log_files#Using_Monthly_logs_to_deal_with_shorter_.28or_incomplete.29_dayfile.txt_records_for_particular_dates | workaround]] as at all current versions (up to 1.9.4) you can only use 'Create missing' to read from the [[Monthly_log_files]] if the whole day (a row starting with a date) is missing in ''dayfile.txt''. | For ''Create missing'' a list of inserted records is produced in [[dayfileeditlog.txt]]. If just some fields are wrong in a particular row (meteorological day) on day file, then there is a [[Monthly_log_files#Using_Monthly_logs_to_deal_with_shorter_.28or_incomplete.29_dayfile.txt_records_for_particular_dates | workaround]] as at all current versions (up to 1.9.4) you can only use 'Create missing' to read from the [[Monthly_log_files]] if the whole day (a row starting with a date) is missing in ''dayfile.txt''. | ||
'''Note for obsolete version 1.9.2 and 1.9.3:''' There is a bug in these versions in that 'Create missing' inserts 'heating and cooling degree day' values the wrong way round. | |||
'''Note for version 1.9.3 | |||
'''Note for | '''Note for obsolete version 1.9.3 only:''' Create missing might in some cases be affected by a bug in 1.9.3 that can cause incorrect date order for records (dayfile.txt uses dd/mm/yy or dd-mm-yy and all records should be in ascending chronological order) | ||
There are no known bugs in version 1.9.4, the current release at time of writing. | There are no known bugs in version 1.9.4 build 1086, the current release at time of writing. | ||
==Manipulation outside Cumulus== | ==Manipulation outside Cumulus== | ||