Subject: Re: [APDL] *vread with mixed character/number array. Author: John Swanson Date: 2002-08-26 07:56:00How about for the first pass: 1. Ignore blank lines 2. Ignore all characters from ! to end of line a. If ! is in column 1, treat as blank line (ignore) 3. Ignore lines which have invalid data in any numeric field 4. Set _RETURN to the last read line number This would occur it the number of items to be read per line is entered in field 11 (the field after nskip).
I am also looking for adding to the *GET,Par,FILE the ability to find the next line in a file containing a (up to 32 char) string. This might return the first 32 characters of the line containing the string, and set _RETURN to the line which contains the string. This would facilitate finding data in a file.
A second phase might be to add a "include" set of characters in field 12 and a "ignore" set of characters in field 13, where include and ignore would be based on the character in column 1. Is there anyone out there other than Bob who would be interested in this?
John Swanson Swanson Analysis Services, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Metrisin [mailto:jmetrisin@t...] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 7:04 AM To: 'xansys@yahoogroups.com' Subject: [xansys] Re: [APDL] *vread with mixed character/number array.
Hi John,
I think as a general case, it would be nice if ANSYS could read a line up to 128 characters and ignore lines with characters in columns that are supposed to contain numbers.
Bob Weathers suggestion is more general, and would fit my needs too if it could be done.
Regards,
Joe Metrisin Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:54:29 -0400 From: John Swanson Subject: RE: Re: [APDL] *vread with mixed character/number array.
My immediate thought was "Nope, can't do that because ansys uses the system read with the user supplied format statement". However, the clever suggestions contained here might offer some hope, especially with the c formats. Can someone help me understand better what is desired. Is it as simple as ignoring any lines which contain characters? Or do we need to ignore lines which contain characters in columns which are supposed to contain numbers? If we were to read the entire line as a character string, then decode it internally, what would the maximum line length be? Would a fixed limit like 128 of 640 (slower) be acceptable? Comments, anyone? John Swanson Swanson Analysis Services, Inc.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Metrisin [SMTP:jmetrisin@t...] > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 2:34 PM > To: 'xansys@yahoogroups.com' > Subject: [xansys] Re: [APDL] *vread with mixed character/number > array.
> Many thanks to Ashok, Gordon, Bob, and others for their clever > workarounds. > Since we are writing macros to automate repetitive procedures, it would be
> nice if ANSYS had the ability to ignore characters during *VREAD. For now
> we are stuck with slow workarounds, or additional processing outside of > ANSYS.
> Regards,
> Joe Metrisin > Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.