| Re: reading in a long line of data [message #60261 is a reply to message #60259] |
Fri, 09 May 2008 07:03   |
edward.s.meinel@aero.
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Registered: February 2005
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OK, I must be missing something. Doesn't READ_ASCII work on this type
of file?
Ed
On May 8, 12:56 pm, te...@atmsci.msrc.sunysb.edu wrote:
> Sorry, maybe I should have been more explicit. The data is not
> unformatted but I tried that because otherwise I get an error messege:
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> Input line is too long for input buffer of 32767 characters.
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> Ben, thanks for your suggestion, but I also get that error messege
> trying your suggestion.
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> To be more explicit, each line of data looks something like this
> (where there are 2520 columns):
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> 1.0117065e+003 1.0114794e+003 1.0112352e+003 1.0110832e+003
> 1.0109401e+003 ...
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> Thanks,
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> Howard
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> On May 8, 12:43 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
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>> te...@atmsci.msrc.sunysb.edu writes:
>>> Hi, I am trying to read in a long line which has around 2520 values
>>> all in scientific notation (ie 1.2E+02, etc). I tried the following:
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>>> x=strarr(2520)
>>> x[*]='12345678'
>>> readu,unit,x
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>>> Then converting to floating point. This doesn't seem to work since
>>> the data is in scientific notation. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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>> I would suggest less fuzzy thinking. :-)
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>> What is a "line" of data? Computers don't do
>> "around" or "about" anything. They are like
>> children. They have to be told explicitly.
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>> Cheers,
>
>> David
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>> P.S. Do you know anything more exact about this data?
>> Do you know, for example, if it is really saved in
>> an unformatted data file?
>
>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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