Mansour:
I may be mistaken, but I don't think that there is any way within Montaj
to accomplish what you're trying to do. I think that for the '-' values,
you may have to use an editing tool to replace the '-' with some other
value. If you want to retain the information, you could set it to some
unique negative number. Or, you can simply replace the '-' with '-9999'
which will then be interpreted as a dummy.
I normally use 'sed', the UNIX streaming editor to do the search and
replace on large ASCII files. You could also write a short Perl script to
accomplish the same result.
Hope that helps, and that I haven't missed the point completely.
Ken Versteeg
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mansour Shoari wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have some flat archives which contain dummy (-9999), Blank ( ) and Dash
> (-) inserts. Explanations for these bizarre inserts are: "Where data are
> missing or deleted, a marker value of -9999 is inserted. Zero values are
> left blank. Negative values rounded to zero are "-". Now, I want to make a
> GDB out of this flat archives (I have quit many of them in large
> sizes!!!!!.) and replace blank and "-" characters with "zero" values. Does
> any one know a simple/quick way of doing this? I can't send any attachment
> using GEONET. However I have digital versions of the sample flat archive and
> the "i3" template (PKZipped size: 12KB) if you are interested in receiving
> and trying out - Just drop a line and ask! I will send it to your personal
> mail address.
>
> Good weekend every one,
>
> mansour shoari
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> Specifying Double format in the .i3 file wouldn't work because of dash
> inserts (-). Specifying ASCII would treat the column(s) as "string" type and
> would bring everything into the GDB as is, including -9999 values - this
> template created blank blank cells (not with "*" char.) and ignore the
> specified scale as well.
>
> Herewith is the shortened version of the flat archive plus the i3 template:
>
> 20011 11931102 4076700 36504 4104624 71717512 2080 -9999 56
> -9 11 33 - -61 -50 2 -214 13 -232 113 3027
> -9999 3664 44350
> 20011 11931102 4076720 -9999 4104626 71717592 2080 594432 62
> -7 12 33 33 -63 -55 2 -216 11 - 103 3027
> -9999 3664 44660
> 20011 11931102 4076739 37007 4104627 71717672 2080 594489 -
> -5 12 38 -67 -1 -58 1 -214 10 -255 98 3027
> -9999 3664 44820
> 20011 11931102 4076759 37014 4104629 71717752 2080 594525 71
> -3 11 16 41 -71 - -59 -214 8 -255 97 3027
> -9999 3664 44850
> 20011 11931102 4076779 37021 4104631 71717832 2080 -9999 68
> -2 10 12 44 -72 -1 -59 - -215 8 -254 93 3027
> -9999 3664 44990
> 20012 11931102 4076799 37029 4104632 71717912 2070 594542 56
> -1 10 6 45 -59 -216 10 -258 83 3027
> -9999 3664 45360
> 20012 11931102 4076819 -9999 4104634 71717992 2070 594526 -
> -2 9 1 - -71 -2 -59 -216 9 - 81 3027
> -9999 3664 45440
> 20012 11931102 4076839 37043 4104635 71718072 2070 -9999 21
> -3 8 -2 45 -1 -59 -210 8 -249 84 3027
> -9999 3664 45320
> 20012 11931102 4076859 37050 4104637 71718152 2060 594456 -17
> -5 - -6 44 -71 -59 - -203 8 -241 86 3027
> -9999 3664 45250
> 20012 11931102 4076879 37058 4104638 71718232 2060 594411 -44
> -8 8 -9 42 -70 -58 - -195 8 -233 87 3027
> -9999 3664 45210
> 20013 11931102 4076899 37065 4104640 71718312 2050 594367 -70
> -11 7 -10 40 -1 -58 -185 9 86 3027
> -9999 3664 45250
> 20013 11931102 4076919 -9999 4104642 71718392 2050 -9999 -
> -15 7 -10 - -72 -2 -60 - -178 9 -218 80 3027
> -9999 3664 45480
> 20013 11931102 4076939 37079 4104643 71718472 2050 594316 -105
> -20 7 -10 32 -74 -1 -62 -176 10 -218 82 3027
> -9999 3664 45400
> 20013 11931102 4076959 37086 4104645 71718552 2050 594325 -106
> -24 7 -8 26 -74 -2 -63 - -187 10 -226 91 3027
> -9999 3664 45060
> 20013 11931102 4076979 37094 4104646 71718632 2050 594362 -79
> -30 6 -6 20 -76 -2 -63 -211 10 -239 89 3027
> -9999 3664 45130
>
> [IMPORT ARCHIVE]
> FILEHEADER 0
> RECORDFORM FIXED
> SKIPSTRING "/"
> LINENUMBER 0,8,NORMAL
> DATA 8,3,NORMAL,,,-9999,
> CHAN FLT,ASCII,NORMAL,3,0
> DATA 11,6,NORMAL,,,-9999,
> CHAN DATE,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 17,8,NORMAL,,,-9999,
> CHAN TIME,ASCII,NORMAL,8,0
> DATA 25,9,NORMAL,0.001,,-9999,
> CHAN FIDUCIAL,ASCII,NORMAL,9,0
> DATA 34,9,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN X,ASCII,NORMAL,9,0
> DATA 43,9,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN Y,ASCII,NORMAL,9,0
> DATA 52,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN RALT,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 58,7,NORMAL,0.01,,-9999,
> CHAN LEV_TMI,ASCII,NORMAL,7,0
> DATA 65,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN CVG1,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 71,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN VLF_TF_L,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 77,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN VLF_Q_L,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 83,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN VLF_TF_O,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 89,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN VLF_Q_O,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 95,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN LOWCX_I,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 101,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN LOWCX_Q,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 107,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN MIDCX_I,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 113,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN MIDCX_Q,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 119,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN MIDCP_I,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 125,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN MIDCP_Q,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 131,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN HICP_I,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 137,6,NORMAL,0.1,,-9999,
> CHAN HICP_Q,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 143,6,NORMAL,0.001,,-9999,
> CHAN RESLOWCX,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 149,6,NORMAL,0.001,,-9999,
> CHAN RESMIDCX,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 155,6,NORMAL,0.001,,-9999,
> CHAN RESMIDCP,ASCII,NORMAL,6,0
> DATA 161,7,NORMAL,0.001,,-9999,
> CHAN RESHICP,ASCII,NORMAL,7,0
>
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