oops, I meant to save my post but I sent it instead - doh! In the end, the question was; is worth adding start= and stop= markers into loadtxt to allow grabbing sections of a file between two known headers? I imagine it's something that people come up against regularly.
Thanks, Neil ________________________________ From: Neil Hodgson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 17 September, 2010 14:17:12 Subject: loadtxt stop Hi, I been looking around and could spot anything on this. Quite often I want to read a homogeneous block of data from within a file. The skiprows option is great for missing out the section before the data starts, but if there is anything below then loadtxt will choke. I wondered if there was a possibility to put an endmarker= ? For example, if I want to load text from a large! file that looks like this header line header line 1 2.0 3.0 2 4.5 5.7 ... 500 4.3 5.4 END more headers more headers 1 2.0 3.0 3.14 1.1414 2 4.5 5.7 1.14 3.1459 ... 500 4.3 5.4 0.000 0.001 END Then I can use skiprows=2, but loadtxt will choke when it gets to 'END'. To read t
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