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Re: converting strings to float [message #88750 is a reply to message #88749]

Fri, 13 June 2014 06:11

dg86
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Registered: September 2012

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On Friday, June 13, 2014 6:38:35 AM UTC-4, Krishnakumar M.A wrote:
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> I have a huge data file of two columns and a '# header' line in between. I used grep in idl to remove the '# lines'. The resulting output is written as a string, which is actually of 2 columns. I only require the second column for doing a surface plot. 1st column is just integer numbers. As i split the string by giving
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> h=strmid(b,3,10)
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> It will give me the second column but, rows from 0-9 will have huge -ve values. If I do the same with h=strmid(b,2,10), columns >=100 will give junk values. I'm kind of stuck with this.
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> Is there a better way to split the string and copy to a fltarr than defining the position to read from, as like one can do in C, Fortran etc?
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> Thanks,
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> Krishnakumar

Have you considered the READ_ASCII function from the standard IDL library?

All the best,

David

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		converting strings to float By: Krishnakumar M.A on Fri, 13 June 2014 03:38
		Re: converting strings to float By: dg86 on Fri, 13 June 2014 06:11
		Re: converting strings to float By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 13 June 2014 10:43
		Re: converting strings to float By: Krishnakumar M.A on Wed, 18 June 2014 04:18

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