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Re: template for READ_ASCII [message #25573 is a reply to message #25479]

Mon, 25 June 2001 03:44

Alex Schuster
Messages: 124
Registered: February 1997

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Bob Fugate wrote:

> 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.

There is the SAVE method already mentioned in this thread, but another
possibility would be the creation of the template in your program like I
just did in one of mine:

template = { $
version : 1.0, $
datastart : 9, $
delimiter : 32B, $
missingvalue : !values.f_nan, $
commentsymbol : '', $
fieldcount : 8L, $
fieldtypes : [ 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 ], $
fieldnames : [ 'time', 'xyz', 'field3', 'field4', $
'field5', 'field6', 'field7', 'winkel' ], $
fieldlocations : [ 0, 3, 8, 14, 22, 27, 33, 40 ], $
fieldgroups : [ 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 7 ] }

Just do a HELP, mytemplate, /STRUCT, and you will see what kind of
struct the template is. There is nothing wrong with using SAVE and
RESTORE, but sometimes I like to avoid extra files and prefer a single
one.

Alex
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		template for READ_ASCII By: Bob Fugate on Sun, 24 June 2001 18:26
		Re: template for READ_ASCII By: Bob Fugate on Mon, 25 June 2001 18:52
		Re: template for READ_ASCII By: m.hadfield on Mon, 25 June 2001 15:26
		Re: template for READ_ASCII By: Alex Schuster on Mon, 25 June 2001 03:44

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