"""Convert NASA Tecplot-zone .dat files to flat CSV. Each .dat file in a given directory is read via the same parser used in the original NASA challenge submission (readNasaZoneFile), then flattened to a single CSV with one row per (zone, sample) and a `zone` column to preserve the multi-zone structure. Usage: python dat_to_csv.py [ ...] """ import sys import os import glob import numpy as np import pandas as pd def _text_in_line(line): if line == '': return False return max( [(ord(c) > 96) & (ord(c) < 101) | (ord(c) > 101) & (ord(c) < 123) for c in line.lower()] ) def read_nasa_zone_file(path): """Parse a NASA Tecplot-zone .dat file into a dict {zone: {var: array}}.""" with open(path) as f: data = f.read() data_lower = data.lower() var_start = data_lower.find('variables') var_end = var_start + data_lower[var_start:].find('\n') var_line = data[var_start:var_end] variables = var_line.split('"')[1::2] zones = [] zone_inds = [] data_start_inds = [] find_data_start = False if 'zone' not in data_lower: zones.append('zone') zone_inds.append(0) find_data_start = True lines = data.split('\n') lower_lines = data_lower.split('\n') for i, (line, lower) in enumerate(zip(lines, lower_lines)): if 'zone t=' in lower or 'zone, t=' in lower: zones.append(line.split('"')[1]) zone_inds.append(i) find_data_start = True if find_data_start and not _text_in_line(line): data_start_inds.append(i) find_data_start = False zone_inds.append(i + 1) out = {} for i, zone in enumerate(zones): buff = np.genfromtxt( path, skip_header=data_start_inds[i], max_rows=zone_inds[i + 1] - data_start_inds[i], ) if buff.ndim == 1: buff = buff.reshape(1, -1) out[zone] = {variables[j]: buff[:, j] for j in range(len(variables))} return out def dat_to_dataframe(path): zones = read_nasa_zone_file(path) frames = [] for zone_name, var_dict in zones.items(): df = pd.DataFrame(var_dict) df.insert(0, 'zone', zone_name) frames.append(df) return pd.concat(frames, ignore_index=True) def convert_directory(directory): dat_files = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(directory, '*.dat'))) if not dat_files: print(f' (no .dat files in {directory})') return for dat_path in dat_files: try: df = dat_to_dataframe(dat_path) except Exception as exc: print(f' FAILED {dat_path}: {exc}') continue csv_path = dat_path[:-4] + '.csv' df.to_csv(csv_path, index=False) print(f' {os.path.basename(dat_path)} -> {os.path.basename(csv_path)}' f' ({len(df)} rows, {len(df.columns)} cols)') if __name__ == '__main__': if len(sys.argv) < 2: print(__doc__) sys.exit(1) for d in sys.argv[1:]: print(f'\n[{d}]') convert_directory(d)