diff --git a/PROMS/XYPlots/XYPlots.cs b/PROMS/XYPlots/XYPlots.cs
index 803bbdfa..2cbc7e3e 100644
--- a/PROMS/XYPlots/XYPlots.cs
+++ b/PROMS/XYPlots/XYPlots.cs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ using System.IO;
 using System.Windows.Forms;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Drawing;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using VG;
 
 namespace XYPlots
@@ -390,7 +391,8 @@ namespace XYPlots
 			char[] sepchar = { ',' };
 			string[] xystr = NextPiece().Split(sepchar);
 				x = double.Parse(xystr[0]);
-			y = double.Parse(xystr[1]);
+			char[] trimEndDot = { '.' };  // Wolf Creek OFN SB-008, figure 3 had a string like 50.0. so trim the ending '.'
+			y = double.Parse(xystr[1].Trim(trimEndDot));
 			if (doLOG10[flag, X])
 				retval.xyValue[X] = (int)(Offset[flag, X] + Scale[flag, X] * Math.Log10(x) + .5);
 			else
@@ -446,6 +448,12 @@ namespace XYPlots
 			{
 				Buff = Buff.Substring(4);
 			}
+			// remove an extra spaces between ><
+			//Buff = Regex.Replace(Buff, @"[ ]+<", "<");
+			Buff = Buff.Replace(">\r ", ">\r\n ");
+			Buff = Regex.Replace(Buff, @"[ ]+<", "<");
+			// some data only had carriage return, replace these with cr/nl so that following code
+			// will work
 			Buff = Buff.Replace(">\r<", ">\r\n<");
 
 			while ((ptr = Buff.IndexOf(">\r\n<", ptr)) > 0)