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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Reading in Data from an ASCII file

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Keeling
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Posted: 10th Feb 2004 18:22
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I am having a slight problem reading in data created with other programs. I am working on a n-body simulation with another programming language. I have been using GnuPlot to plot my 3d data. I would like to use DB to load this same data and allow the user to zoom around and while the bodies interact.

The data generated looks like this:

0.000000234 1.12000034 0.0000000023
0.000000256 1.12000037 0.0000000029

etc......

I can of course change the format. The problem I am having is reading this data into DB. I've used the Read Float command and I get garbage data. Is it possible to read ascii data in DB? (as opposed to it's native format).
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Kentaree
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Posted: 10th Feb 2004 18:34
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You should try read string$(), and then convert it to a float value. I cant remember what the command is, but check in the maths help in your help files.

I would be unstoppable if I could just get started...
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