Covariance matrix for the physical cross section $sigma(e^+e^- \to \pi^+\pi^-)$, which includes FSR and VP, in the angular region $0^o<\theta_{\pi}<180^o$. The overall matrix is 60x60, in the energy region 0.35 1st slice cov_spp12.dat 0.45 2nd slice cov_spp13.dat 0.55 6th slice To store the content in the matrix we suggest the following fortran code: real covpi(60,60) character*15 xfile do i=1,60 do j=1,60 covpi(i,j)=0. enddo enddo do i=1,6 311 FORMAT ('cov_spp',I2,'.dat') write (xfile,311) 10+i open(UNIT=10+i,FILE=xfile,STATUS='OLD') enddo do j=1,60,10 k1=10+int(j/10)+1 do i=1,60 read(k1,303) covpi(i,j), $ covpi(i,j+1),covpi(i,j+2), $ covpi(i,j+3),covpi(i,j+4), $ covpi(i,j+5),covpi(i,j+6), $ covpi(i,j+7),covpi(i,j+8), $ covpi(i,j+9) enddo enddo 303 format(10(1x,f6.2)) do i=1,6 close(10+i) enddo