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Re: make strsplit not skip null between patterns [message #75192 is a reply to message #75191]

Thu, 17 February 2011 15:07

Michael Galloy
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On 2/17/11 3:59 PM, Garfield wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to use strsplit to extract data from a string. the string
> is like this:
>
> RD|I|04|013|9997|43202|10|1|078|142|20070813|02:00|0.00000|| ||
> ND|||||||||||.31806
>
> I am using '|' as the pattern of separator, so the statement is "data
> = strsplit(line,'|', count=n, /extract)". I do this for thousands of
> lines. The problem for me is that there is not always an input between
> a pair of '|', so the dimensions of the 'data' returned by IDL are not
> constant. I don't want this because every input in between a pair of
> '|' has different meaning. I want to make the dimension of 'data' to
> be constant so that I can easily know the meaning of each input.
>
> Need ideas! Thanks,
>
> Zhen

Try the setting the PRESERVE_NULL keyword.

Mike
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		Re: make strsplit not skip null between patterns By: Garfield on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:43
		Re: make strsplit not skip null between patterns By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 February 2011 15:17
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