Best Way to Write File to Extract Data

[newtofortran31]

Hi All,

I have a bunch of text files in the following format that are all over 10,000 lines long. I only want to pull out the data starting after the line that ends 3 1 3. I only want two arrays, one being [1.000000-5 5.029911-4 3.567310-3 9.500160-3 etc.] and the other being [2.022625+3 2.961525+2 1.190999+2 9.500160-3 etc.] One complication is that there is no space between the last number I am interested in (in each line) and the '8925'

NOTE: I cannot get the columns to line up in this format, but they are lined up in the text file

....continued.....
0.000000+0 0.000000+0 0 0 0 08925 0 0 0
8.922500+4 2.230900+2 0 0 0 08925 3 1 1
0.000000+0 0.000000+0 0 0 1 1198925 3 1 2
119 5 8925 3 1 3
1.000000-5 2.022625+3 5.029911-4 2.961525+2 3.567310-3 1.190999+28925 3 1 4
9.500160-3 7.786903+1 2.530000-2 5.260050+1 5.195710-2 4.052419+18925 3 1 5
....continued.....

My first thought is to just search for the "3 1 3" line then start reading in numbers, and then use formatting statements to read in the last number in scientific notation (ignoring the 8925)

I am definitely a programming novice and I just wanted to get a sense of the best strategy to start out with. Thanks.

 

[mikrom]

There are several theads in this forum about extracting data from a file.
You can search for an example code and try to adjust it for your purpose.