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- From: hwa@batman.asd.sgi.com (John Hwa)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
- Subject: Re: Datascribe: inputting multiple sets of non-homogeneous data
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 20:36:52 GMT
- References: <BuM0pE.LAE@casper.cs.uct.ac.za>
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- In article <BuM0pE.LAE@casper.cs.uct.ac.za>, gds@casper.cs.uct.ac.za (Riel Smit) writes:
- |> How do one do it? I am new to explorer and can't find the answer either in
- |> the manual or by experimenting (at least not within the time I have
- |> available :-)
- |>
- |> Can someone point me in the right direction as to how to read the follwoing
- |> data into one or more latices (the data is in binary form, but that has not
- |> been the problem):
- |>
- |> id1 (char[11] string of ASCII characters identifying data set 1)
- |> nobs1 (int: number of observations>
- |> junk (real[20]: data I don't care about)
- |> data1 (int[5,nobs]: five data values I'm interested in with
- |> data[1,i], the x-coordinate; y-coordinates
- |> can be taken to be 1,2,3,4...)
- |> id2 (data set 2)
- |> nobs2
- |> junk2
- |> data2
- |> id3
- |> nobs3
- |> ...
- |>
- |> It was fairly straightforward to create a map that reads the first set of
- |> data into a lattice, but how do I tell it now to repeat that until it finds
- |> an end of file? The only way I can see is to define an array, but array
- |> elements cannot be non-homogeneous (used here to indicate "consisting of
- |> different types")
- |>
- |> If I could define an array of structs, no problem ... :-) (Even though the
- |> data file does not say how many data sets there are, I can always find out
- |> off-line).
- |>
- |> Do I have to write my own input module rather than use datascribe?
- |> Any help would be much appreciated.
- |> --
- |> Riel Smit, Computer Science gds@cs.uct.ac.za
- |> University of Cape Town gds%cs.uct.ac.za@rain.psg.com
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-
- The dscribe 1.0 cannot handle array of set. You will need to write
- your own input module to handle it in this case.
-
-
- John P. Hwa
- hwa@sgi.com
-