Problem Reading Tab Delimited File with Empty First Cell

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Wed, 07/01/2009 - 04:00 pm

I have a data file that starts with an empty "tab" in the first row, first column position ...

    0.0 323224.28646657424  323226.2420223789   ...
188.24  -9.49   2.14    -6.84   ...
....


I am trying to read it into a matrix. For the life of me, I cannot set up the proper LoadWave command to read the values in the first raw as anything but integers. The matrix inputs I have gotten always read as

    0.0 323224  323226   ...
188.24  -9.49   2.14    -6.84   ...
....


My initial attempts centered around ...

    LoadWave/O/K=1/D/N=raw/J/M fileName


What additional sequence of LoadWave flags will fix this? Note that I have no knowledge in advance of how many columns are in the data file (though I generally know the number of rows).
Jeff-

Those numbers that look like integers all have six digits left of the decimal point. Most displays (like in a table) default to six digits precision. In a table, right-click on the wave in question and select a larger number of digits from the contextual menu.

John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com

July 2, 2009 at 08:38 am - Permalink

johnweeks wrote:
Those numbers that look like integers all have six digits left of the decimal point. Most displays (like in a table) default to six digits precision. In a table, right-click on the wave in question and select a larger number of digits from the contextual menu.


I am embarrassed that I missed this one!

Thanks.

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J. J. Weimer
Chemistry / Chemical & Materials Engineering, UAH

July 2, 2009 at 03:01 pm - Permalink