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• The top line must be 2DA V2.0
• There may be one or more blank lines before the first line that contains characters, which is considered the header line
  • The first column header must be blank, and that column is ignored (is usually a human readable number)
    • The first column number IDs can be wrong - the game just reads each new line as a new entry (incremented from 0)
  • The second and onwards columns must have the header match the in-game reference loaded, the order of columns doesn't matter. Label columns are generally ignored.
• Further lines are data rows:
  • Column data - but not the header name - can be in double quotes - "text here" - to include spaces. Whether or not the game understands that one being in quotes very much depends
  • Column data is separated by one or more whitespace characters (tabs, spaces)
  • Blank data is classified with 4 stars: ****
    • You can quote the stars ("****") or have a blank quoted field which, of course, is blank ("") but any other combination of stars (less, more, or in single quotes) will be returns literally.

This all comes together to mean some very odd looking 2das can be completely valid.

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