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Re: Skip line in reading a file [message #71115 is a reply to message #71018]

Wed, 26 May 2010 00:34

mankoff
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Registered: March 2004

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On May 25, 11:54 pm, Fred <fedef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi to everybody,
> I need to read a file of n columns "namefile", but also I need to
> select only the lines where the variable in column 3, i.e. [2,*], for
> example, has value larger than X.
> I tried this way:
>
> n1=numlines(namefile)
>
> OPENR, 1, namefile
> aaa=fltarr(col,n1)
> readf,1,aaa
> close,1
>
> aa = REFORM(aaa[2,*])
> if aa[2,*] gt X then a[*,*] = aaa[*,*]
>
> The array a should be an array a[col,n2], where n2 is the number of
> the lines where aa[2,*] gt X.
> But
> help,/st,a
> gives an array with columns=col and lines=n1!!!
> So it completes the routine without errors but does not select the
> lines where aa[2,*] gt X.
> I could not use Skipline of readcol, because it skips only the first
> line. There should be an easy way to do it.
> Thanks

a = randomu(seed,3,10) ; 3 col x 10 row array of random values
gd = where(a[2,*] gt 0.5, ngd) ; All rows where 3rd column > 0.5
if ngd gt 0 then aa = a[*,gd] ; subset 1st array

-k.

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		Skip line in reading a file By: Fred[1] on Tue, 25 May 2010 23:54
		Re: Skip line in reading a file By: mankoff on Wed, 26 May 2010 00:34
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