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Examples of Common Mistakes in Table Converter

I: Tables that cannot be unambiguously parsed.
This is the most dangerous error, since incorrect data may be returned.

Description Input Table Reformated Table
Table is column-delimited format but the column values are misaligned.
incorrectlyParsed.tbl
ASCII / VOTable

II: Tables failed to be parsed.

Description Input Table Error Message
Space is used as data delimeter but also exists in the data that makes parsing impossible.
failedExample.tbl
We were unable to parse this file

III: Binary files.

Description Input Table Error Message
Table is written in binary format.
binary.tbl
No viable data was found in this file

IV: Good tables, but no coordinate/object information.

Description Input Table Error Message
No RA,Dec (or glon,glat etc.) columns or column interpretable as an object name.
nocoords.tbl
We cannot identify columns to use as coordinates or a column to use as object names/locations


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