dustem_read_spin.pro
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FUNCTION dustem_read_spin,file,silent=silent
;CAUTION: the data is read as strings ...
st=''
Nmax=10000L
sts=strarr(Nmax)
openr,unit,file,/get_lun
;==read comments
str=''
comments=['']
first_char='#'
Ncomments=0L
WHILE first_char EQ '#' DO BEGIN
readf,unit,str
first_char=strmid(str,0,1)
comments=[comments,str]
IF first_char EQ '#' THEN Ncomments=Ncomments+1
ENDWHILE
comments=comments[1:*]
IF Ncomments NE 0 THEN comments=comments[0:Ncomments-1]
;==read data
;last line in previous WHILE loop is first data
tmp = [str]
WHILE NOT EOF(unit) DO BEGIN
readf, unit, str
tmp = [tmp, str]
ENDWHILE
;==save and return structure
full_st={file:file,fspin:tmp,comments:comments}
close,unit
free_lun,unit
RETURN,full_st
END