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[ferret_users] string variables and format statements
I want to read a literal or string variable into Ferret using the fortran format statement feature, but Ferret does not seem to get it right. I tried
set data /var="v1,v2"/format="(1x, f6.2,1x,a6,/////)" my_file.txt
but variable v2 is not recognized as a string variable. Adding /type="num,text" to the statement does not help because that only seems to work with /EZ. I need the /format formulation because I want those /////'s so I can skip lines in the middle of a file. /skip=5 in Ferret would only let me skip lines at the beginning of the file.
Now that Ferret is more string-variable-capable, why can't we have a literal variable type in the format statement?
Any suggestions?
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