Initializing variables from external files

SIC allows easy initialization of variable from files in ``foreign'' format (i.e. not GILDAS images). This can be done with the ACCEPT command, which allows reading variables from formatted or unformatted files. This command is available in 3 major modes

• ACCEPT /ARRAY
  ACCEPT Var /ARRAY File [/FORMAT String] [/LINE Begin [End]]
  reads in free format or user specified format variable Var from file File, selecting a line range if specified. Var may have up to 4 dimensions.
• ACCEPT /BINARY
  ACCEPT Var /BINARY File [Skip]
  reads the binary file File to set variable Var. Skip is a number of BYTEs to skip before reading. Note that there is no type conversion in this command: the binary content of the file must match the type declared for the variable.
• ACCEPT /COLUMN
  ACCEPT V1 [V2 [...]] /COLUMN File [/FORMAT String] [/LINE Begin [End]]
  reads the formatted file File to set one or several 1-dimensional variables V1 V2 .... Free format is used by default, unless the /FORMAT option is specified. The special argument * can be used instead of the variable name to indicate a ``dummy'' variable, which is read from the file, but not assigned. This allows to skip a column in the input file.