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Re: Reading complicated ASCII data [message #71526 is a reply to message #71525]

Tue, 29 June 2010 06:11

David Fanning
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Tone M R writes:

> The table of figures is actually in straight columns, a column per
> month, with a dot wherever a measurement is zero. (There are also
> blank spaces at the bottom of each table, for dates such as feb 30th.)
> I've managed to work around the headers and identify where a table
> starts, and what I wanted to do was to read the entire thing into a
> nice structure array I've prepared. However, when using READF, IDL
> stops when trying to convert a dot to a float (understandably), and I
> haven't managed to solve it with a format code. I have thought about
> using STRSPLIT and WHERE to replace them, but then I have to go one
> line at a time, and I was rather hoping to make something a little
> more elegant.
>
> Does anyone see a way around these dots?

No. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say, when inelegant is the ONLY way,
it is usually elegant enough. :-)

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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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		Re: Reading complicated ASCII data By: Chris W on Tue, 29 June 2010 11:36
		Re: Reading complicated ASCII data By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 29 June 2010 07:13
		Re: Reading complicated ASCII data By: Andy Heaps on Tue, 29 June 2010 06:29
		Re: Reading complicated ASCII data By: David Fanning on Tue, 29 June 2010 06:11
		Re: Reading complicated ASCII data By: Tone M R on Wed, 30 June 2010 01:34

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