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Re: How to read data with format codes? [message #70164 is a reply to message #70069]

Sun, 14 March 2010 10:23

Kenneth P. Bowman
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In article
<e5bdbfda-121a-41fb-8204-57764e0cc70d@g10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
Adam Solomon <ramparts@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks! I was going to do that but I read on this website - dfanning
> something or other - to avoid for loops in IDL :) Figured a format
> code would save time since there's on the order of 10^6 data points
> here, but I guess that's nothing compared to all the time I'm spending
> writing the damn code!

When you are doing I/O, the slow parts of the operation are
most likely to be getting the data from the disk and converting
ASCII numerals to their internal binary representation. Using
a loop should have little impact on the time required.

Ken Bowman

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		Re: How to read data with format codes? By: penteado on Sat, 13 March 2010 17:45
		Re: How to read data with format codes? By: Adam Solomon on Sat, 13 March 2010 17:20
		Re: How to read data with format codes? By: penteado on Sat, 13 March 2010 17:19
		Re: How to read data with format codes? By: David Fanning on Sat, 13 March 2010 17:04
		Re: How to read data with format codes? By: Adam Solomon on Sat, 13 March 2010 16:39
		Re: How to read data with format codes? By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Sun, 14 March 2010 10:23
		Re: How to read data with format codes? By: David Fanning on Sat, 13 March 2010 18:10
		Re: How to read data with format codes? By: R.G.Stockwell on Sat, 13 March 2010 18:03

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