RDMATCH

Name

rdmatch

Purpose (one Line)

Read a standard name --- non-standard name correspondence file.

Description

This program reads a file which contains a list of matches between
informal and imprecise object names (typically from FITS headers)
and formal, well-defined object names to be used by EPHEM.
The file format has one pair of strings per line.
The first string starts at the start of the line. The second string
starts at just after the ' character. Each string is stripped of
leading and trailing blanks (and tabs).
These string pairs are collected into a pair of string arrays and
then returned.

File I/o

Calling Sequence

rdmatch,file,proper,informal

Inputs

file - String containing file name to be read.

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Parameters

ERROR - error flag, if true, some error occured during file I/O.

Outputs

proper - String array of proper ephemeris names.
informal - String array of informal object names.

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

3/25/93 - Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory.
11/22/96 - MWB, changed to permit spaces in the proper names.
98/01/28 - MWB, changed to quietly ignore blank lines in file.