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Re: Reading in a non-rectangular array [message #50896 is a reply to message #50893]

Wed, 25 October 2006 10:52

Jean H.
Messages: 472
Registered: July 2006

Senior Member

Hi,
Try to read each line as a string, then split this string using strSplit
with the keywork Preserve_Null set. Then you can build your 6*n array,
filling the location having a null string value with a flag value...

Jean

willettk@gmail.com wrote:
> G'day,
>
> I'm trying to read in a data table to IDL that is (gasp)
> non-rectangular (thanks very much to the astronomers involved). The
> data is in an ASCII file, but certain cells will simply be blank if
> there was no data for that particular value (so out of 6 columns, any
> given row might have 0-6 actual values). Reading this into IDL, though,
> doesn't seem to work according to Hoyle. This is what I have tried (and
> received):
>
> ___________
>
> fname = 'table1.dat'
> openr, lun1, fname, /get_lun
> nlines = file_lines(fname)
> data = fltarr(6, nlines)
> readf, lun1, data
>
> % READF: Input conversion error. Unit: 100
> File: /Users/willettk/table1
> % Execution halted at: $MAIN$
>
> ___________
>
> Any ideas that might help me read the data? Many thanks, if so.
>

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		Re: Reading in a non-rectangular array By: willettk on Wed, 25 October 2006 12:42
		Re: Reading in a non-rectangular array By: Jean H. on Wed, 25 October 2006 10:52
		Re: Reading in a non-rectangular array By: Braedley on Thu, 26 October 2006 07:50

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