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Re: Forcing READ_ASCII output to be a set of strings... [message #43134 is a reply to message #43004]

Tue, 15 March 2005 01:04

Karsten Rodenacker
Messages: 98
Registered: July 1997

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Humm, interesting debate
Why not:
function read_s_ascii_new, na, count=i
openr,lun,na,/get_lun
i=0
s=''
while ~eof(lun) do begin
readf, lun,s
r=i eq 0 ? s : [temporary(r),s]
i++
endwhile
free_lun,lun
return,i eq 0 ? -1l : r
end
By the way read_s_ascii was an old routine from I don't know whom.
Regards
Karsten

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:56:22 -0600, Michael Wallace
<mwallace.no.spam@no.spam.swri.edu.invalid> wrote:

>> Second, why should the default be string rather than float? Just
>> because you have a need to use strings for this particular application
>> doesn't mean that RSI should change their defaults. For default
>> values, a floating point number is the best assumption to make. If the
>> default values don't work for you, use a template. This is why
>> templates exist...
>
> And by the way, you want to do:
>
> template = ascii_template()
> data = read_ascii('myfile.csv', TEMPLATE = template)
>
> If you need to use the template multiple times, just save it off
> somewhere and restore it in your code whenever you need it.
>
> -Mike

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		Forcing READ_ASCII output to be a set of strings... By: Jonathan Greenberg on Mon, 14 March 2005 09:56
		Re: Forcing READ_ASCII output to be a set of strings... By: Karsten Rodenacker on Tue, 15 March 2005 01:04
		Re: Forcing READ_ASCII output to be a set of strings... By: Michael Wallace on Mon, 14 March 2005 14:15
		Re: Forcing READ_ASCII output to be a set of strings... By: JD Smith on Fri, 18 March 2005 15:11
		Re: Forcing READ_ASCII output to be a set of strings... By: Jonathan Greenberg on Mon, 14 March 2005 13:34
		Re: Forcing READ_ASCII output to be a set of strings... By: Michael Wallace on Mon, 14 March 2005 12:56

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