Re: reading ASCII data file

[Mark Verschell <markverschell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Irina,  Welcome to the community!

Not sure if this will work, but you can give it a try:

Explicitly define a grid that "fits" your data (even if it is only 1-d), e.g.:
If you have an 8 line header, 100 data lines, and then the 8 line footer:

define axis/x=1:100:1 myaxis
define grid/x=myaxis mygrid
set data/ez/skip=8/columns=3/grid=mygrid/var="depth,data,stdev" mydataset.dat

Mark

On Sunday, May 20, 2001, at 06:01 PM, Irina Marinov wrote:

> Hello everyone. I'm a new - proud ferret user with my first question for
> the community.
>
> I have many ASCII data files which have a header of 8 lines, 3 columns of
> data and then some 8 lines of unwanted text. Is there any way to skip the
> 8 lines of text at the end ? The command 
>
> set data/ez/skip=8/columns=3/var="depth,data,stdev" mydataset.dat 
>
> doesn't work because I have those 8 lines of unwanted text at the end. 
>
> Any suggestions ?			
>
> Thank you. 
> Irina Marinov
> AOS Program, Princeton University