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Reading in a non-rectangular array [message #50897]

Wed, 25 October 2006 10:41

willettk
Messages: 20
Registered: October 2006

Junior Member

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):

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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: $MAIN$

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Any ideas that might help me read the data? Many thanks, if so.

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