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Re: Reading ASCII Data Files in IDL [message #67881 is a reply to message #67880]

Tue, 08 September 2009 20:34

Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008

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On Sep 8, 9:39 pm, "b.a" <u4565...@anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my IDL program, I read some data from an ASCII file. I want to skip
> the first few lines of strings and start from the numerical data
> underneath the header. the number of lines in the header differs each
> time so I can't use "header = STRARR()".
>
> Does anyone have any solution? By the way, I have seen 'http://www.dfanning.com/tips/ascii_column_data.html' but the headers
> of my files have different lines.
>
> Thank you.

Maybe readcol in the astronomy user's library would be useful?

-Jeremy.

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