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Re: How to read data with format codes? [message #70166 is a reply to message #70069]

Sat, 13 March 2010 18:10

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Adam Solomon writes:

> 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!

Well, 30 seconds to write the code I sent you,
10 minutes to read the damn file the first time,
and write it out the way it should have been written
the first time, then *all* of your format code versions
should have worked. :-)

Cheers,

David

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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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