Re: skips while reading tab delimited data

["Christophe Fraser" <c.fraser(at)ic.ac.uk>]

I use exactly the same code and the same data. But I've never has this
problem before either. The data is generated from some C Code, so it
shouldn't have hidden Windows symbols in it. But as it doesn't occur in 5.4,
I guess I should just stick to that.
Cheers,    Christophe

> Do both versions use the same code to read the data ? I never had IDL
> skip anything I did not tell it to.
>
> Cheers,
> Pavel
>
> Christophe Fraser wrote:
> >
> > We run IDL 5.2 on our network and I have 5.4 on my laptop. While reading
in
> > tab delimited data into an array, IDL 5.2 skips whole lines of data, but
5.4
> > does not. I find this a bit alarming. Am I doing something weird?
> >
> > Cheers,    Christophe Fraser