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Re: reading many files [message #53025]

Tue, 13 March 2007 07:57

Paolo Grigis
Messages: 171
Registered: December 2003

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george wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have to write a short program that however have to read very many
> files with similar names like
>
> data49-5.0-4.0.dat
> data50-5.0-4.0.dat
> ...
> data49-5.0-3.0.dat
> data50-5.0-3.0.dat
> ....
>
> i.e. with the following form
> data**-5.0-**.dat

You can use file_search first to find all matching files

Result = FILE_SEARCH('/yourdirectory/subdir/data*-5.0-*.dat')

and then loop through the result array to read them in one by one.

Ciao,
Paolo

>
> The number of files is quite large, indeed, so I rather than to type
> any single file, I was wondering if there is any (I'm sure there's)
> way to read all this file with a FOR cicle like (obviosuly I don't
> know if the example is correct, since it's what I'm asking...)
>
> for j=49, 80 do begin
> for i=-4, 0 do begin
> readcol,somethings.....
> endfor
> endfor
>
>
> Thanks so much!
> G.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>

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