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Re: problem with reading formated file [message #10160 is a reply to message #10158]

Fri, 10 October 1997 00:00

Martin Schultz
Messages: 515
Registered: August 1997

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Pavel Eiges wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> i'm new in IDL programming so my question may be very
> dumb/simple/funny/etc but i cant solve this problem by myself.
>
> i have a formated file like this:
> ===========================
> 1877383765 1.778
> 1877384765 1.685
> 1877385765 1.599
> 1877386765 1.599
> 1877387765 1.685
> ===========================
> and i need to load it into two arrays. the first array is LONG-type,
> the second one - FLOAT-type. How i can do this?
> ("READF, file, Time, Data" does not work).
>
> %-\ HELP!
>
> Pavel Eiges

You must specify a format='(...)' statement with the READF command. In
your case thi swoul dbe something like

READF,file, time, data, format='(3X,i10,f9.3)'

Also, because time is a long variable, you may have to assign it to a
long value before you call READF, e.g. time=0L (well, you don't have to:
IDL converts it into a float if you don't. But this way you can save it
as a long variable if you like to).

Cheers,
Martin.

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