| Re: writing multi-column text files [message #36093] |
Mon, 18 August 2003 10:35 |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
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James Bradbury wrote:
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> I have a simple floating point array
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> DATA FLOAT = array[17,48]
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> that I would like to write to a text file.
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> This is how I am trying to do it:
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> openW, 1, 'new_data.txt'
> printF, 1, data
> close,1
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> The problem is that when I open the IDL-written text file outside of
> IDL, it does not have the same dimensions as it should (17 columns,
> and 48 rows). It only has six columns... and 3 times as many rows.
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> This seems like it should be VERY simple...
Should be. Unfortunately file I/O never is (in any language as far as I can tell :o) The problem is the
default output width of ASCII files. I think it's something like 80-100 columns.
Try
openw, 1, 'new_data.txt', width=2000
This should give you 2000 output columns(characters)...more than enough for 17 data columns.
paulv
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