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Re: Forcing READ_ASCII output to be a set of strings... [message #43144 is a reply to message #43004]

Mon, 14 March 2005 12:56

Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003

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> 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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