Re: skips while reading tab delimited data

[Reimar Bauer <r.bauer(at)fz-juelich.de>]

Christophe Fraser wrote:
> 
> I use exactly the same code and the same data. But I've never has this
> problem before either. The data is generated from some C Code, so it
> shouldn't have hidden Windows symbols in it. But as it doesn't occur in 5.4,
> I guess I should just stick to that.
> Cheers,    Christophe

How did you read, tell us a bit more!

Did you something like:

header=make_array(/string,1)
values=make_array(/float,5,10)

openr,lun,file,/get_lun
readf,lun,header
readf,lun,values
free_lun,/lun


I have never seen such a problem as you described.

regards

Reimar


> 
> > Do both versions use the same code to read the data ? I never had IDL
> > skip anything I did not tell it to.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Pavel
> >
> > Christophe Fraser wrote:
> > >
> > > We run IDL 5.2 on our network and I have 5.4 on my laptop. While reading
> in
> > > tab delimited data into an array, IDL 5.2 skips whole lines of data, but
> 5.4
> > > does not. I find this a bit alarming. Am I doing something weird?
> > >
> > > Cheers,    Christophe Fraser

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