Comments#

These comments from an example SPEC data file scan:

1#C Fri Mar 11 16:29:51 2022.  plan_type = generator
2#C Fri Mar 11 16:29:51 2022.  uid = dccc572d-9a5b-4f72-87d7-233b2fd33e4e
3#C Fri Mar 11 16:29:57 2022.  num_events_baseline = 2
4#C Fri Mar 11 16:29:57 2022.  num_events_primary = 10
5#C Fri Mar 11 16:29:57 2022.  exit_status = success

are written to the Scan entry as a single NeXus field [1] named comments where all the scan’s comments are joined together by newline (\n) characters:

1comments:NX_CHAR = [b'Fri Mar 11 16:29:51 2022.  plan_type = generator\nFri Mar 11 16:29:51 2022.  uid = dccc572d-9a5b-4f72-87d7-233b2fd33e4e\nFri Mar 11 16:29:57 2022.  num_events_baseline = 2\nFri Mar 11 16:29:57 2022.  num_events_primary = 10\nFri Mar 11 16:29:57 2022.  exit_status = success']

Note, when printed, the value of this example comments field looks like:

Fri Mar 11 16:29:51 2022.  plan_type = generator
Fri Mar 11 16:29:51 2022.  uid = dccc572d-9a5b-4f72-87d7-233b2fd33e4e
Fri Mar 11 16:29:57 2022.  num_events_baseline = 2
Fri Mar 11 16:29:57 2022.  num_events_primary = 10
Fri Mar 11 16:29:57 2022.  exit_status = success

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