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Re: Efficient way to split an array of strings. [message #56817 is a reply to message #56814]

Wed, 14 November 2007 17:39

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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bberkey@gmail.com writes:

> have a lot of data that comes to me in tabular files with a nice mix
> of strings and numerical data. Typically I will read the data into a
> string array. And then loop over each line in the file calling
> STRSPLIT repeatably.
>
> Is there a better way to accomplish this?

Why don't you just read the data from the file
directly:

OpenR, lun, 'test.dat', /Get_LUN
rows = File_Lines('test.dat')
struct = {f:0.0D, I:0, s:''}
data = Replicate(struct, rows)
ReadF, lun, data
Free_Lun, lun

Print, data.f, Format='(F10.2)'
Print, data.I
Print, data.s

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Efficient way to split an array of strings. By: Brian Larsen on Thu, 15 November 2007 07:13
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