Loader For Tecplot Chorus

[zakamuhammad]

I need to load a lot of txt files in the chorus project, I tried to add a loader as explained in the chorus user manual, generated a macro, and copied the instructions into xml file but when I read Data from the chorus project, tecplot 360 can't load the data
Macro Read Data Set

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$!READDATASET  '"D:\force.csv" "VERSION=100 FILEEXT=\"*.txt\" FILEDESC=\"General Text\" "+""+"TITLE{SEARCH=NONE  NAME=\"New Dataset\" LINE=1 DELIMITER=AUTO WIDTH=10 }"+""+"VARIABLES{"+"SEARCH=NONE  NAMES = \"w,Mz,fd,fl\""+" LOADED= All  STARTLINE=1 ENDLINE=1 DELIMITER=AUTO WIDTH=10 }"+""+"DATA"+"{"+"IGNORENONNUMERICTOKENS=TRUE IMPORT"+"{"+"STARTID=LINE {"+"LINE=1 }"+""+"ENDID=EOF {"+"LINE=1 }"+""+"FORMAT=IJKPOINT DELIMITER=AUTO WIDTH=10 }"+""+"DIMENSION"+"{"+"AUTO=TRUE CREATEMULTIPLEZONES=FALSE }"+"}"+"GLOBALFILTERS{"+"USEBLANKCELLVALUE=FALSE BLANKCELLVALUE=0.000000 }"'
  DATASETREADER = 'General Text Loader'
  READDATAOPTION = NEW
  RESETSTYLE = YES
  ASSIGNSTRANDIDS = NO
  INITIALPLOTTYPE = XYLINE
  INITIALPLOTFIRSTZONEONLY = NO
  ADDZONESTOEXISTINGSTRANDS = NO
  VARLOADMODE = BYNAME


Xml Edited

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<!DOCTYPE ChorusForeignLoaderDescription>
<ChorusForeignLoaderDescription version="1">
    <TecplotLoader Name="General Text Loader">
        <StandardSyntaxIndentifier Name="FILELIST_TXTFILES" DefaultExtension=".txt"/>
        <InstructionTemplate Name="txt">
            "FILELIST_TXTFILES" %FILELIST_TXTFILES% "VERSION=100 FILEEXT=\"*.txt\" FILEDESC=\"General Text\" "+""+"TITLE{SEARCH=NONE  NAME=\"New Dataset\" LINE=1 DELIMITER=AUTO WIDTH=10 }"+""+"VARIABLES{"+"SEARCH=NONE  NAMES = \"w,Mz,fd,fl\""+" LOADED= All  STARTLINE=1 ENDLINE=1 DELIMITER=AUTO WIDTH=10 }"+""+"DATA"+"{"+"IGNORENONNUMERICTOKENS=TRUE IMPORT"+"{"+"STARTID=LINE {"+"LINE=1 }"+""+"ENDID=EOF {"+"LINE=1 }"+""+"FORMAT=IJKPOINT DELIMITER=AUTO WIDTH=10 }"+""+"DIMENSION"+"{"+"AUTO=TRUE CREATEMULTIPLEZONES=FALSE }"+"}"+"GLOBALFILTERS{"+"USEBLANKCELLVALUE=FALSE BLANKCELLVALUE=0.000000 }"
        </InstructionTemplate>
    </TecplotLoader>
</ChorusForeignLoaderDescription>


I could read data using other methods, i.e.
1. using header info, but that would require me count lines, because data has varying lengths so that is difficult to do
2. using a macro and copying it will each file, that too requires to put macro in 100s of folders
Defining a loader is easy and I don't have to edit existing files and or load additional macros