CIF Applications. X. Automatic Construction of CIF Input Functions: CifSieve

Abstract

A software package for reading a list of CIF data into user-specified variable names in the DDL domain dictionary is described. The customized function generated by this process provides detailed error reporting and may be called from C or Fortran programs. The package is small, simple to install and fast. It runs on variants of the Unix operating system that have the following utilities available: Bison/Yacc, Flex, Perl and C.