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Re: ascii_template advanced [message #50017 is a reply to message #50015]

Thu, 07 September 2006 06:40

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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maye writes:

> The problem I have with the ascii_template/read_ascii combination is
> really the unknown amount of comment lines at the beginning plus the
> fact that I want to read the header line in AFTER those unknown amount
> of lines.
> Because the template let's me ignore the comment lines, but then the
> first line of my data structure will contain the variable names.
> Also, when I use the DATA_START keyword of read_ascii, it counts again
> from the beginning of the file, not from where I already defined the
> data to be of value (meaning withOUT the comment lines).
> If it would work like that, I could define the template to ignore
> comment lines, and then skip one extra line at the read_ascii command,
> using it for the HEADER keyword to read in the variable names. Would it
> not make more sense if things work like that?
> I hope I made myself clear? :-/ By the way, if somebody wonders: I want
> the variables names for a GUI to be clickable. ;)
> Does anybody have a solution for this?

I don't have a solution, but I'm certain there must
be one, since I've never had to use READ_ASCII in
20+ years of IDL programming. Perhaps you have to
write a program. :-)

Cheers,

David
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		Re: ascii_template advanced By: greg michael on Fri, 08 September 2006 09:04
		Re: ascii_template advanced By: maye on Thu, 07 September 2006 13:02
		Re: ascii_template advanced By: Mike Wallace on Thu, 07 September 2006 08:05
		Re: ascii_template advanced By: Jo Klein on Thu, 07 September 2006 07:53
		Re: ascii_template advanced By: David Fanning on Thu, 07 September 2006 06:40

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