The Standard text format protocol supports import of load data or weatherdata from a textfile with data in separated columns. Common separators are semicolon or tab.

The first two columns must be date in the first and time in the second. E.g the format of the date can be one of the following; yyMMdd, yyyyMMdd, yyyy-MM-dd or yy-MM-dd.

# Example of a simple text file to import using StdText

#This row will be interpreted as a comment

Date;Hour;ABC_load

2011-01-01;00;42.8

2011-01-01;01;41.5

2011-01-01;02;40.3

Data for many load series can be imported from one text file, in this case each row contains values for a given hour and for one or more series.

Rows beginning with # in the import file will be treated as remarks and is ignored by the import.