Re: character data reading

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Namba,

Please see the "COLUMNS" command (an alias for "SET DATA/FORMAT=delimited")
in the Ferret documentation.

For the file you have shown, you'll probably want to use a command like

  yes? columns/delimiter="
"/skip=1/variable="dumy,dumy1,lon,lat,dumy2,depth,tem" test.txt

    - steve

P.S. offline from ferret_users (to minimize needless traffic) please let us
know what operating system you were running on.  On Solaris the commands
that you show give the error message  "**TMAP ERR: incomprehensible list
input"

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Namba Takaya wrote:

> Dear Sir
>
> I have ascii data file(test.txt) and I would like to input it.
> (test.txt)
> id             sn        lon   lat  date       depth temperature
> wod0000001     1234567   99.5  6.7  3/8/1956   0     27.6
> woe0000002     1234568   97.9  9.2 11/7/1972  10     29.7
>
> file /variable="dumy,dumy1,lon,lat,dumy2,depth,tem" test.txt
>
> But error says "character device ..."
> I quess that means taht we can not get(read) character data by this way.
>
> Could you tell me how to read the character data from ascii file?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Takaya Namba
>
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