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Re: template for READ_ASCII [message #25478 is a reply to message #25477]

Sun, 24 June 2001 19:23

m.hadfield
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Registered: April 2001

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From: "Bob Fugate" <rqfugate@mindspring.com>

> My question is, can I save the template somehow so I don't have to
> regenerate it with ASCII_TEMPLATE each time I restart IDL and want to
read
> new tables? I realize I only have to run ASCII_TEMPLATE once each session
> but I would like to make this completely automatic and so I don't have to
> manually go through the GUI each day. It is not a really big deal but I am
> getting greedy.

The template is an IDL structure. You can save it to disk with SAVE and
restore it with RESTORE.

Here's how I would do it:

function read_myfile, file
common myblock, template
if n_elements(template) eq 0 then begin
template_file = <specify your template file name here>
case file_test(template_file, /READ) of
0: begin
template = ascii_template(file)
save, FILENAME=template_file
end
1: restore, FILENAME=template_file
endif
return, read_ascii(file, TEMPLATE=template)
end

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Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research

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		Re: template for READ_ASCII By: m.hadfield on Sun, 24 June 2001 22:36
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