| Data items cannot contain commas. Supported line endings are \n, \r\n, and . Required characters are all ASCII characters except for * and the control characters CR and LF.
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| Only key-value pairs are supported. Each key must have exactly one value. The same key cannot be specified more than one time in a single standalone section. Opening and closing brackets are both required, and must be the first and last character in the section header line (other than whitespace and commas). A standalone section cannot be empty. Data in standalone sections must not contain brackets.
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| There can only be one data item in a section header line. Section headers are required to start with an opening square bracket, and end with a closing square bracket Opening and closing brackets are both required, and must be the first and last character in the section header line (other than whitespace and commas)
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| The application name cannot include Settings or Data. The application name cannot be empty. The application name cannot include -. Each application can have a maximum of one Settings section and one Data section.
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| Settings sections can support only key-value pairs. Each key can have only one value. The application name cannot include -. Applications sections cannot be empty. At least one key-value pair must be specified. Keys and values cannot contain [ or ].
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| For each line that follows the column header line in the application data section, the number of empty plus non-empty data items cannot be less than the number of column headers. For each line that follows the column header line in the Application Data section, the number of non-empty values cannot be greater than the number of column headers. Column headers must all be unique. Each application data section must contain a column header called Sample_ID. Column headers and values cannot contain [ or ].
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