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Re: Ascii-import [message #32025 is a reply to message #32024]

Tue, 10 September 2002 06:58

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Thomas Jordi (tschordi@giub.unibe.ch) writes:

> Thanks to both of you. As the ascii_read didn't work I first posted,
> then thought.
> This is how i finally resolved it (with w eq filename):
>
> OPENR, unit10, w, /GET_LUN
> buf=''
> count=0
> WHILE (NOT EOF(unit10)) DO BEGIN
> READF, unit10, buf
> count=count+1
> ENDWHILE
> CLOSE, unit10 & FREE_LUN, unit10
> img=STRARR(count)
> OPENR, unit9, w, /GET_LUN
> READF, unit9, img
> CLOSE, unit9 & FREE_LUN, unit9
>
> some sort of countrows...

That's pretty much it. :-)

You don't need to use the CLOSE statement, by the way.
FREE_LUN will both close and free the logical unit number.
CLOSE is only required for those logical unit numbers you
assign directly, not those you obtain with GET_LUN or the
GET_LUN keyword.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Ascii-import By: David Fanning on Tue, 10 September 2002 07:38
		Re: Ascii-import By: R.Bauer on Tue, 10 September 2002 07:20
		Re: Ascii-import By: David Fanning on Tue, 10 September 2002 06:58
		Re: Ascii-import By: Thomas Jordi on Tue, 10 September 2002 06:40
		Re: Ascii-import By: David Fanning on Tue, 10 September 2002 06:31
		Re: Ascii-import By: R.Bauer on Tue, 10 September 2002 06:00
		Re: Ascii-import By: David Fanning on Tue, 10 September 2002 05:59
		Re: Ascii-import By: R.Bauer on Tue, 10 September 2002 04:34
		Re: Ascii-import By: thompson on Thu, 12 September 2002 08:06

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