FILELINE

Name

fileline

Purpose (one Line Only)

Returns one line from a file at a chosen location.

Description

File I/o

Calling Sequence

line=fileline(filename,linenumber)

Inputs

filename :String, name of file to read
linenumber:The line number of the file to read (0 indexed)

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

HEADER : Optional header to be skipped in the file. Default is no
header. If supplied, this string (or string) array must
match the first N lines of the file or it will be an error.
The header, if provided, is not counted in the line count
for the line to be returned.

Outputs

return value is the specified line of the file (string). If an error
occurs, the return value is an integer value of -1. If you get a string,
there was no error.

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

2004/07/13, Written by Maureen Teyssier, REU Lowell Observatory
2004/07/15, MWB, incorporated into library.