From be38ef0eb09a9156a85afb014ed1268610685076 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:26:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] make native dump reader compatible with dump files containing
 ITEM: UNITS

---
 src/reader_native.cpp | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/reader_native.cpp b/src/reader_native.cpp
index fba613bdd3..a4b188be5f 100644
--- a/src/reader_native.cpp
+++ b/src/reader_native.cpp
@@ -56,12 +56,19 @@ int ReaderNative::read_time(bigint &ntimestep)
   char *eof = fgets(line,MAXLINE,fp);
   if (eof == NULL) return 1;
 
+  // skip over unit information, if present.
+
+  if (strstr(line,"ITEM: UNITS") == line)
+    read_lines(2);
+
   if (strstr(line,"ITEM: TIMESTEP") != line)
     error->one(FLERR,"Dump file is incorrectly formatted");
+
   read_lines(1);
   int rv = sscanf(line,BIGINT_FORMAT,&ntimestep);
   if (rv != 1)
     error->one(FLERR,"Dump file is incorrectly formatted");
+
   return 0;
 }