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Re: Open text files consecutively without knowing names [message #85266 is a reply to message #85265]

Fri, 19 July 2013 10:17

morganlsilverman
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Registered: February 2013

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On Friday, July 19, 2013 12:42:05 PM UTC-4, John Correira wrote:
> On 07/19/2013 12:22 PM, Morgan Silverman wrote:
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>> Hello, I have several folders containing ascii files in each. The
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>> filenames within those folders are a grouping of numbers and letters
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>> corresponding to year, day, and other instrument characteristics (e.g
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>> 8358d47a.tps, 8358h41a.tps, 8358l35a.tps). Unfortunately there isn't a
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>> pattern or order to the filenames beyond the first couple digits which
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>> are connecting to the parent directory to easily open the files
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>> consecutively. I want to open each file, read the data, then close and
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>> repeat on the next file. Is there a way to loop through the files in
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>> each directory without knowing specifically what the filenames are?
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>> I'm struggling with how to do this since. Thank you. Sincerely, Morgan
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> Should be something like this:
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> files = file_search('/path/to/your/files/','*.tps', COUNT=nfiles)
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> for i=0, nfiles-1 do begin
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> nlines = FILE_LINES(files[i])
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> data = STRARR(nlines)
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> OPENR, lunit, files[i], /get_lun
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> READF, lunit, data
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> CLOSE, lunit
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> FREE_LUN, lunit
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> ; Do some stuff here
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> endfor

This is great. Thank you very much.

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		Open text files consecutively without knowing names By: morganlsilverman on Fri, 19 July 2013 09:22
		Re: Open text files consecutively without knowing names By: John Correira on Fri, 19 July 2013 09:42
		Re: Open text files consecutively without knowing names By: morganlsilverman on Fri, 19 July 2013 10:17
		Re: Open text files consecutively without knowing names By: Phillip Bitzer on Fri, 19 July 2013 13:10

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