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Subject: Re: [APDL] *vread with mixed character/number array.
Author: Don Shaffer
Date: 2002-08-22 12:33:00

Try the Unix translate command tr to change
any characters into the an acceptable alternative
such as a blank.

Don Shaffer

-----Original Message-----
From: jmetrisin [mailto:jmetrisin@t...]
Sent: August 22, 2002 9:12 AM
To: xansys@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xansys] Re: [APDL] *vread with mixed character/number array.

Dave, Peter,

No, the characters may not always be the first group of lines. NSKIP
doesn't work in this case.

Joe Metrisin
Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.

--- In xansys@y..., pfrei@r... wrote:
> Joe,

> Do you always have the same number of lines with characters? Are
they
> always at the beginning of the data file (as your sample data file
> suggests)? If so, have you tried the NSKIP option of *VREAD?

> Peter

> Peter U. Frei, Rockwell Automation AG, IEC Power Components, Dept.
ER
> Buchserstrasse 35, CH-5001 Aarau, Switzerland
> pfrei@r..., phone: +41 62 837 24 47, fax: +41 62 837 29 17

> Joe Metrisin
> 22.08.02 14:27
> Please respond to xansys

> To: "'xansys@y...'"
> cc:
> Subject: [xansys] [APDL] *vread with mixed
character/number array.

> Greetings,

> Does anyone know of a way to *VREAD a column of data that may have
a few
> rows with characters? ANSYS will abort the *VREAD if it encounters
any
> characters in the column. Even using a mask vector to tell ANSYS
to skip
> the character rows does not work. I want ANSYS to ignore the
character
> rows
> and just read the numbers.

> Below is a snippet to illustrate the problem:

> Data file:

> aaaaaaaaabbbbbbbb
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
> 9
> 10

> Macro:

> *dim, mask_, array, 10
> *vfill, mask_(1), ramp, 0.

> *do, i_, 2, 10, 2
> mask_(i_) = 1
> *enddo

> *dim, data_, array, 10
> *vmask, mask_(1)
> *vread, data_(1), 'junk.dat'
> (f20.0)

> Thanks.

> Joe Metrisin
> Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.
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