====== Source Settings ======

**The ASCII Source Settings** are used to set the parameters of data files with column information in comment lines in a general header\\
and files that are possibly line interspersed.

**Column Name Line**: Choose the number of the line that contains information about the column names.

**Comment Lines**: Write the character that defines Comment Lines.

**Null Character:** Write the character for Null Values.

**Decimal Separator:** Choose whether the Decimal Separator is a dot or comma.

**Data Separator:** Choose whether the data are separated with "Space/Tabular" or a specific character.

**GeoSoft Lines Interspersed:** Check on the box if your data are Line Interspersed.

**Read more lines:** If you press this button the software loads more data in the preview.\\
==== Line Interspersed: ====

If the data are gathered and sorted by columns and then placed at intervals defined by for example lines.\\
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==== See examples below: ====

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//Example 1. Line interspersed data set with the column information in line 1.\\
The comment lines start with "/", the null character is blank, and the data are separated with commas.//

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//Example 2. Line interspersed data set with the column information in line 6.\\
The comment lines start with "/", the null character is a "*", and the data are tabular separated.//