Re: skips while reading tab delimited data

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

Christophe Fraser wrote:
> 
> Well if you're interested, here's the code that reads in the data:
What kind of line end character did you wrote.

is it LF or CR LF.


I learned that's IDL on windows need CR LF. And I am sure
if you wrote the data by IDL you will be able to read it
correctly. If you have a HEX Editor you will see the differences.


regards
Reimar



> 
> dataread=0
> if dataread eq 0 then begin
>  CD, 'U:\VAIO2\C Code\residual'
>  Nloops = 200L
>  NR0Steps = 200L+1
>  arraydet = dblarr(3,NR0Steps)
>  arraystoc = dblarr(3,(NR0Steps)*Nloops)
>  OpenR, 1, 'residual1.txt'
>  ReadF, 1, arraydet
>  ReadF, 1, arraystoc
>  Close, 1
> endif
> 
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Reimar Bauer
> >
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> > Forschungszentrum Juelich
> > email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
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> >
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Reimar Bauer 

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Forschungszentrum Juelich
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