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2. Select an appropriate ASCII file and click Open.
The stimuli from the ASCII file are loaded into the active MC_Stimulus worksheet. All previous
records are overwritten. Channels that are not present in the ASCII file are empty. You can now
edit and download the stimulus file as usual.
If the file does not fulfill the requirements of a stimulus file, an error message will show up and
tell you in which line the first error occurs. See "Supported File Format" for more information
about supported ASCII files.
6.2 Exporting Files
1. On the File menu, click Export ASCII File.
The Save As dialog box appears.
2. Browse to the target folder and enter a file name.
3. Click Save to generate the ASCII file.
All pulse protocols from the active file will be saved in ASCII file format. The MC_Stimulus ASCII
format type is format type 4. For your convenience, the generated ASCII file includes the header
that is required for reimporting the file into MC_Stimulus.
6.3 Supported File Formats
The ASCII text must exactly follow the specifications below. The parameters in angle brackets are
placeholders for any valid numbers or strings.
Hint: You can set up files conveniently in any standard spreadsheet program and save them as
tab-delimited ASCII.
General
• The file name and the file name extension are not important. You can use any extension you
like, for example .txt, or .dat, or any other.
• Comments are introduced by the number sign #. The rest of the line after # is only for your
information; it is completely ignored when executing the stimulus file. (You do not need
comments, of course, but it is convenient for documentation.)
Hint: Use # to comment lines out. That is, you can disable lines without removing it from the file.
Thus, you can keep the lines for later uses.
• Blank lines are ignored.
• The spelling is strict. The MC_Stimulus program does not recognize a keyword if it is misspelled
or if even only one character is missing, but it is not case-sensitive.
• The file has the following structure.
1. File header
2. Data
File header
The first two non comment lines have to be the following lines. Files for older versions of the
import filter (version 1.00) can be imported with the current version as well.
Multi Channel Systems MC_Stimulus
ASCII import Version 1.10
The next three lines have to be the following lines (in any order).