On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Puneet Kishor writes:
>>
>> I am inheriting a few "binary" files with .bsq
>> (band sequential?) from an IDL user.  Is there a PDL
>> routine to read these?
>
> There is a readenvi.pdl file for the PDL::AutoLoader
> in PDL/IO/ENVI (which is the starting point for a
> basic ENVI IO module).

Hmmm... I don't see PDL::IO::ENVI, but that may definitely be useful
in the long run.

> You can also just use the
> PDL::IO::FlexRaw stuff but you'll have to figure out
> the header stuff yourself.

In the meantime, Craig's suggestion for FlexRaw worked splendidly. The
header part was easy. I just created the header and, bingo! I had a
nice, hot piddle to work with.


>
> Hint:  readenvi.pdl has comments too that may be useful
> if you want to roll your own.  All of this is in the latest
> PDL-2.4.7 pre-release on CPAN.  See the announcements
> this list.
>
> --Chris



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