patch to allow scientific notation dielectric function, with possibil… #1836
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Summary
Some versions of VASP (notably, run with MedeA) have a different format to dielectric function tensor output in the OUTCAR file. Notably, the format:
For example, the OUTCAR may contain a section that looks like:
Note the use of scientific notation throughout, as well as the lack of delimiter between some of the values in the second line.