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METAL expects that each set of results will be summarized in a table. This table must be stored in a text file but otherwise METAL is quite flexible about details such as column separators, column headers and the like. This does mean that an essential bit of information needed before any meta-analysis is a description of each input file.

METAL expects that each set of results will be summarized in a table. This table must be stored in a text file but otherwise METAL is quite flexible about details such as column separators, column headers and the like. This does mean that an essential bit of information needed before any meta-analysis is a description of each input file.

The first thing you should specify is the column separator. By default, METAL assumes columns are separated by each other by whitespace (which consists of any combination of space and tab characters). You can also specify:

The first thing you should specify is the column separator. By default, METAL assumes columns are separated by whitespace (which consists of any combination of space and tab characters). You can also specify:

   SEPARATOR  WHITESPACE    - the default

   SEPARATOR  WHITESPACE    - the default