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Re: A very simple FORMAT question [message #39112 is a reply to message #39111]

Thu, 22 April 2004 01:20

wmconnolley
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"Andry William (Please remove \".spam\")" <andry> wrote:
> wmc@bas.ac.uk wrote:
>>> ------------------------ test.datos ----------------------------
>>> |020922 10:00:00 | 339| 348| 63| 356| 400| 88|
>>> ------------------------ End data ------------------------------
>>
>>> data= INTARR(11, lineas)
>>> READF, 1, data, format= '(1x,i6,3(1x,i2),4x,7(1x,i6))'
>>
>> I count 10 not 11?
>> should be 6 not 7(ix,i6)?

> You are right. It was just a mistyping on the e-mail editor. The
> original code has the above variables.
>>
>> BTW, you could start of with
>>
>> spawn,"perl -i -pe 's/|:/ /g' test.datos"
>>
>> which would change your : and |'s into spaces, whereupon your
>> reading could be simplified.

> Does it make some difference if I have "|" or ":" instead of
> space?

Not as you've written it. But if you read in as

data= INTARR(11, lineas)
readf,1,data

and skip the format (as you can if you've removed the |'s etc in favour
of spaces) you have a simpler life.

> On the other side, the data I have come from some other database
> software and generated by some other people with a lot more data.
> I am also not supposed to alter the data since after my checking
> I should pass it to another program (with the original format),
> pretty picky (I agree).

-W.

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		Re: A very simple FORMAT question By: Christopher Lee on Sat, 24 April 2004 04:26
		Re: A very simple FORMAT question By: Andry William (Please on Fri, 23 April 2004 11:38
		Re: A very simple FORMAT question By: Andry William (Please on Fri, 23 April 2004 11:35
		Re: A very simple FORMAT question By: Chris Lee on Fri, 23 April 2004 04:18
		Re: A very simple FORMAT question By: Chris Lee on Thu, 22 April 2004 02:06
		Re: A very simple FORMAT question By: wmconnolley on Thu, 22 April 2004 01:20
		Re: A very simple FORMAT question By: Andry William (Please on Wed, 21 April 2004 17:29
		Re: A very simple FORMAT question By: Andry William (Please on Wed, 21 April 2004 17:35
		Re: A very simple FORMAT question By: wmconnolley on Wed, 21 April 2004 12:38
		Re: A very simple FORMAT question By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 April 2004 12:31

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