Treating multilinie column headers = table metadata

[martin-held-hereon]

Often, data files have multiple lines as a column header, that is supposed to end up as table metadata. if only the last line before the data is used, the physical property names are not correctly displayed in the output files.

Minimal example txt [file:](

minimal_example.txt

)

Start Position [%]	8
Stop Position [%]	33
Position Increment [%]	0
Start Temperature [°C]	23,0
Stop Temperature [°C]	20,0
Temperature Mode	Down

	FTR 1	PTR 1	TTR 1
	Permeate Flowrate	Feed Pressure	Temperature
Time	ml/min	bar a	deg. C
27.07.2020 11:22:56,752	-6,250235	1,005156	32,624332
27.07.2020 11:33:06,740	-7,250284	0,598564	22,587279

Here, the units are used as the table metadata.

I suggest either

• [if only one line is allowed as the table metadata] putting everything above the numerical table into the table header and letting the user select one line from that
  or
• allow multiple lines as the table metadata, letting the user select the desired lines from the table header via a dropdown menu