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Re: Ascii-import [message #32031 is a reply to message #32030]

Tue, 10 September 2002 05:59

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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

> it may sound dumb but i have problems importing ascii.
> The file I want to import looks like this
>
> /path/filename.file
> /path/filename.file
> ...
>
> when using the toolbar button, I get the desired input, a struct
> containg a field with as much strings as lines in the file.
> But i like to use the ascii_read function, and this just doesnt work.
> Well, it does work with a template, but then again I'm using this
> graphical interface which I dont want to use.
>
> There isn't a keyword in the read_ascii function, to say only on record
> per row, each row is a recrod, at least I dont find it. Perhaps it has
> something to do with the fact, that I want to import strings and not
> integers.
>
> any help would be appreciated

There are much easier ways to read this kind of data
than READ_ASCII. Here is an example using the COUNT_ROWS
program you can find on my web page:

num_rows = Count_Rows(filename)
data = StrArr(num_rows)
OpenR, lun, filename, /Get_Lun
ReadF, lun, data
Free_Lun, lun

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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