[pstricks] ignore first n rows with \readdata
Herbert Voss
Herbert.Voss at alumni.tu-berlin.de
Wed Mar 30 20:51:43 CEST 2005
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Drechsler" <patrick at pdrechsler.de>
To: <pstricks at tug.org>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 4:55 P
Subject: [pstricks] ignore first n rows with \readdata
> Is there a way to tell `\readdata' to ignore the first n row(s)
> in a data file?
>
> I often have column names in the first row(s) as in
>
> time forcex forcey
> 0 0 0.2
> 0.1 19 -20
> 0.2 18 -22
read the data with \readdata{\data}{filename}, then define
\pstVerb{/time {} def /forcex {} def /forcey {} def }
now it should be possible to use it in the usual way. I cannot
test it, because I have no running system until weekend.
Herbert
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