Re: multiple delimiters

[Martin Schultz <martin.schultz(at)dkrz.de>]

nrh@imag.wsahs.nsw.gov.au wrote:
> 
> Has anyone nutted out a way to read ASCII files with multiple
> delimiters? Our current solution involves some messy string operations
> that are restricted to 5.3, and I/O operations we would like to avoid.
> Am I asking the impossible?
> 
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> Before you buy.

1. Read the file line by line as strings
2. use my StrRepl function to replace all delimiters with one value
   e.g.  
     line = StrRepl(line, ';',' ')
     line = StrRepl(line, ',',' ')
     line = StrRepl(line, ':',' ')
3. Use ReadS, Str_Sep or StrSplit (5.3) to extract the numbers.
Caution: With Str_Sep or StrSplit you should always add a
StrTrim(StrCompress(line),2) before

You can find StrRepl at
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/~schultz.martin/idl/html/libmartin_schultz.html

Cheers,
Martin

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