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Re: Read/format mixed int/flt/strng ascii files [message #31787 is a reply to message #31786]

Tue, 20 August 2002 07:55

david[3]
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Registered: August 2002

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Rick Towler wrote:

> "david" <knapp@ucsu.colorado.nospam.edu> wrote
>
>> I need to operate on large tab delimited ascii files that contain a very
>> wide mix of int, flt, string etc
>
> Can you elaborate on the format a little? When you say a wide mix, does
> that mean that any field could contain any data type or is there at least
> consistency within each file?

Yes, each file is self consistent, but file to file I have differing numbers of
fields
and numbers of rows. Type of field in a given position can change from a number
to
a character or int to flt etc...

> Do the string fields contain spaces?

I think I'm free of spaces (have underscores in)

>
> I have dealt with this by reading each line in the file as a string, parsing
> it with STRSPLIT and dealing with the parts but even this approach has
> limits.

So maybe the ultimate answer is that everyone has been doing this "by hand"
every time?

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David Knapp
Atmospheric Odd Nitrogen Project
Atmospheric Chemistry Division
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307

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		Re: Read/format mixed int/flt/strng ascii files By: David Fanning on Tue, 20 August 2002 08:08
		Re: Read/format mixed int/flt/strng ascii files By: david[3] on Tue, 20 August 2002 07:55
		Re: Read/format mixed int/flt/strng ascii files By: R.Bauer on Tue, 20 August 2002 07:07
		Re: Read/format mixed int/flt/strng ascii files By: Rick Towler on Mon, 19 August 2002 14:48
		Re: Read/format mixed int/flt/strng ascii files By: David Fanning on Mon, 19 August 2002 14:01
		Re: Read/format mixed int/flt/strng ascii files By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 21 August 2002 09:08

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