; ; ; Reads balloon data. ; ; Call as: ; filename = "Balloon.dat' ; read_balloon, filename,time, az, el ; ; ; ; David Noone - Sat Nov 7 12:20:09 MST 2009 ; ;------------------------------------------------------------------------ pro read_balloon, filename, time, az, el nlines = file_lines(filename) nobs = nlines - 5 ; assume 5 header lines time = fltarr(nobs) az = fltarr(nobs) el = fltarr(nobs) cbuf = 'character buffer' t = 0.0 & a = 0.0 & e = 0.0 openr,lu,filename,/get_lun readf,lu,cbuf readf,lu,cbuf readf,lu,cbuf readf,lu,cbuf readf,lu,cbuf for i = 0, nobs-1 do begin readf,lu,t, a, e time[i] = t az[i] = a el[i] = e endfor free_lun,lu return end