def apply_hfb_pars():
    """ a function to apply HFB multiplier parameters.  Used to implement
    the parameterization constructed by write_hfb_zone_multipliers_template()

    This is to account for the horrible HFB6 format that differs from other BCs making this a special case

    Note
    ----
    requires "hfb_pars.csv"

    should be added to the forward_run.py script
    """
    hfb_pars = pd.read_csv('hfb6_pars.csv')

    hfb_mults_contents = open(hfb_pars.mlt_file.values[0], 'r').readlines()
    skiprows = sum([1 if i.strip().startswith('#') else 0 for i in hfb_mults_contents]) + 1
    header = hfb_mults_contents[:skiprows]

    # read in the multipliers
    names = ['lay', 'irow1','icol1','irow2','icol2', 'hydchr']
    hfb_mults = pd.read_csv(hfb_pars.mlt_file.values[0], skiprows=skiprows, delim_whitespace=True, names=names).dropna()


    # read in the original file
    hfb_org = pd.read_csv(hfb_pars.org_file.values[0], skiprows=skiprows, delim_whitespace=True, names=names).dropna()

    # multiply it out
    hfb_org.hydchr *= hfb_mults.hydchr

    for cn in names[:-1]:
        hfb_mults[cn] = hfb_mults[cn].astype(np.int)
        hfb_org[cn] = hfb_org[cn].astype(np.int)
    # write the results
    with open(hfb_pars.model_file.values[0], 'w') as ofp:
        [ofp.write('{0}\n'.format(line.strip())) for line in header]

        hfb_org[['lay', 'irow1','icol1','irow2','icol2', 'hydchr']].to_csv(ofp, sep=' ',
                header=None, index=None)
a function to apply HFB multiplier parameters.  Used to implement
    the parameterization constructed by write_hfb_zone_multipliers_template()

    This is to account for the horrible HFB6 format that differs from other BCs making this a special case

    Note
    ----
    requires "hfb_pars.csv"

    should be added to the forward_run.py script