Parses a rndstr.in or lat.in file into pymatgen's
        Structure format.

        :param data: contents of a rndstr.in or lat.in file
        :return: Structure object

def structure_from_string(data):
        """
        Parses a rndstr.in or lat.in file into pymatgen's
        Structure format.

        :param data: contents of a rndstr.in or lat.in file
        :return: Structure object
        """

        data = data.splitlines()
        data = [x.split() for x in data if x]  # remove empty lines

        # following specification/terminology given in manual
        if len(data[0]) == 6:  # lattice parameters
            a, b, c, alpha, beta, gamma = map(float, data[0])
            coord_system = Lattice.from_parameters(a, b, c,
                                                   alpha, beta, gamma).matrix
            lattice_vecs = np.array([
                [data[1][0], data[1][1], data[1][2]],
                [data[2][0], data[2][1], data[2][2]],
                [data[3][0], data[3][1], data[3][2]]
            ], dtype=float)
            first_species_line = 4
        else:
            coord_system = np.array([
                [data[0][0], data[0][1], data[0][2]],
                [data[1][0], data[1][1], data[1][2]],
                [data[2][0], data[2][1], data[2][2]]
            ], dtype=float)
            lattice_vecs = np.array([
                [data[3][0], data[3][1], data[3][2]],
                [data[4][0], data[4][1], data[4][2]],
                [data[5][0], data[5][1], data[5][2]]
            ], dtype=float)
            first_species_line = 6

        scaled_matrix = np.matmul(coord_system, lattice_vecs)
        lattice = Lattice(scaled_matrix)

        all_coords = []
        all_species = []
        for l in data[first_species_line:]:

            all_coords.append(np.array([l[0], l[1], l[2]], dtype=float))

            species_strs = "".join(l[3:])  # join multiple strings back together
            species_strs = species_strs.replace(" ", "")  # trim any white space
            species_strs = species_strs.split(",")  # comma-delimited

            species = {}

            for species_str in species_strs:
                species_str = species_str.split('=')
                if len(species_str) == 1:
                    # assume occupancy is 1.0
                    species_str = [species_str[0], 1.0]
                try:
                    species[Specie(species_str[0])] = float(species_str[1])
                except:
                    species[DummySpecie(species_str[0])] = float(species_str[1])

            all_species.append(species)

        return Structure(lattice, all_species, all_coords)