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Re: Probably a really simple read_ascii quesion.... [message #68149 is a reply to message #68147]

Thu, 01 October 2009 07:09

David Fanning
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Helen writes:

>
> I am trying to read in a text file (which is in column format) using
> read_Ascii. Most of my variables read in fine, with the exception of
> the "time" colum, where data is in HH:MM:SS format. (IDL reads these
> in as 1.0000). Anyone know how to get around this?

I've never used READ_ASCII, but I imagine you will
have to read this column in as an 8-element string
and process it later. (I'd probably use StrSplit
to separate the string into its component parts.)

Cheers,

David

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