Location of ASHRAE standard climate zone in .stat files not consistent

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Dear all,

I am writing some code which will extract the ASHRAE climate zone/climate type (3A, 5A etc) from .stat files, I noticed that the location of this information is not consistent across different stat files.

Before I go ahead and write code to test all the different stat files and the location of this information, I am wondering has someone done this before is there some existing code available? Basically I want to get the ASHRAE climate zone for a particular epw file.

Is there a better way to get this information from say the epw or some other source?

Many thanks!