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Re: reading ASCII Data [message #15114 is a reply to message #15013]

Tue, 20 April 1999 00:00

Martin Schultz
Messages: 515
Registered: August 1997

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David Foster wrote:
>
> [...] I thought
> it'd be trivial using IDL's STR_SEP(), but you can't get rid of
> the extra space characters easily (it gets confused when two
> delimiting characters are next to each-other...dreadful programming!).
>

looks a little clumsy but can be done (as long as they are really only
spaces
seperating your data records):

tokens = str_sep( strcompress( strtrim( line, 2 ) ), ' ' )

(maybe this would be worth its own function, e.g. strstrip)

Regards,
Martin.

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