Re: Formatted Reads of Arrays

[Pavel Romashkin <promashkin(at)cmdl.noaa.gov>]

Bill,
I think than the simpliest thing to do is to read into strings and
STRSPLIT, then convert data types. I also had success reading into
structures. This works if the last part of lines is characters. If first
fields of a structure are strings, then automated formatting for READF
in IDL reads the whole line into a string and more sophisticated
formatting was required.
Cheers,
Pavel

> But the mix of
> characters and integers in this file requires the personal attention.
> Are there any tricks to do this more efficiently or at least drop the
> dummy variables?