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pp_readtxt.pro
Author information
- Author
Paulo Penteado (http://www.ppenteado.net), Feb/2014
Routines
top source pp_readtxt
result = pp_readtxt(file [, count])
Reads a text file into a string array. Each line of the text file becomes one element of the string array.
Return value
A string array with the file contents, one element per line in the file.
Parameters
- file in required
A string with the name of the file to read.
- count out optional
Returns the number of lines read from the file
Examples
Read the example file ascii.txt included with IDL:
fp=filepath('ascii.txt',subdir=['examples','data'])
contents=pp_readtxt(fp)
help,contents
;CONTENTS STRING = Array[20]
print,contents[0:3],format='(A)'
; This file contains ASCII format weather data in a comma delimited table
; with comments prefaced by the "%" character. The columns represent:
; Longitude, latitude, elevation (in feet), temperature (in degrees F),
; dew point (in degrees F), wind speed (knots), wind direction (degrees)
Author information
- Author:
Paulo Penteado (http://www.ppenteado.net),
Statistics
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| Cyclomatic complexity: | 1 |
| Modified cyclomatic complexity: | 1 |
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| Modification date: | Wed Jun 29 22:15:28 2016 |
| Lines: | 9 |
| Docformat: | rst rst |