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Re: Reading string array [message #11362 is a reply to message #11242]

Fri, 20 March 1998 00:00

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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Alex Schuster wrote:
>
> Neil Winrow wrote:
>
>> in the data file, and read in the following column titles into
>> dataTitle:
>>
>> X Y Z FLUX MAXL MAXM IMIN
>>
>
> IDL has to know how long the individual strings are. You can use
> READF, 10, dataTitle, format='(7A7)'
> assuming that each string is seven characters long.
>

.. or you can use STR_SEP to get your header "tokens" out of one header
line. Your problem sounds to me as if you may want to try my readdata
routine which you find on the web page indicated below.

Martin.

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