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Re: can i read multiple files? [message #50255 is a reply to message #50196]

Thu, 21 September 2006 12:53

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Braedley wrote:
> zircola wrote:
>> it is fine, but i wanted to do it automatically not that i have to
>> select the file individually. I want to read the file do the action and
>> again read another file do the same action and read another file and do
>> the same action and so on in the same procedure. My files are in same
>> format and same data attributes but different data set. How can this be
>> done?
>
> My appologies if this caused confusion. Dialog_Pickfile should be used
> when the you want the user to select a file (or directory) to open. If
> there is a need to get the user to open more than one file, then
> include the multiple keyword. If instead you don't want the user to
> have any choice in the matter, you can either hard code the files into
> the code (in your case, in the form of an array) or use file_search
> like David suggested to find files in a directory that match a certain
> criterion. In either case, you'll still probably use a loop to keep
> your code more flexible.

Or you could generate your filenames on the fly if they follow some sort of pattern (like
file001.dat, file002.dat, etc...)e.g.:

for i=1, 100 do begin
filename=string(i,format='("file",i3.3,".dat")')
....
open filename, read, write, etc...
....
endfor

paulv

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		can i read multiple files? By: zircola on Mon, 18 September 2006 17:46
		Re: can i read multiple files? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 September 2006 19:46
		Re: can i read multiple files? By: zircola on Mon, 25 September 2006 00:07
		Re: can i read multiple files? By: zircola on Thu, 21 September 2006 18:05
		Re: can i read multiple files? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 21 September 2006 12:53
		Re: can i read multiple files? By: Braedley on Thu, 21 September 2006 11:31
		Re: can i read multiple files? By: David Fanning on Tue, 19 September 2006 21:22
		Re: can i read multiple files? By: zircola on Tue, 19 September 2006 20:38
		Re: can i read multiple files? By: zircola on Tue, 19 September 2006 20:18
		Re: can i read multiple files? By: Braedley on Tue, 19 September 2006 05:08

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