On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, David Hitchin wrote:
> What if some of the records to be skipped contained fields that weren't
> valid real numbers? Would it be better to read characters instead?
Maybe.
Doesn't a read with nothing in it's I/O list perform a skip of one record?
If so, this would be better, as there's no possibility of a data type
incompatibility.
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Clive Page,
Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Leicester, U.K.
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