PDL::IO::NDF
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This module allows Starlink NDF files (
http://www.starlink.ac.uk)
to be written and read from the Perl Data Language. All numerical
array components are read as PDLs.
The PDL home page can be found at
http://pdl.perl.org/
use PDL::IO::NDF;
$a = rndf("test.sdf");
$a->wndf("output.sdf");
Requirements:
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Requires the following modules from CPAN
PDL
Astro::FITS::Header
PDL 2.4.x or newer is required.
You will also need the NDF module available from
git://github.com/Starlink/perl-NDF.git and the NDF library
from a Starlink distribution (
http://www.starlink.ac.uk).
Installation
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To install this package independently of the main package type:
perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install
Authors
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Tim Jenness <
[email protected]> and Douglas Burke <
[email protected]>.
Currently maintained by Tim Jenness.
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012 Tim Jenness. All Rights Reserved. This program is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
Changes
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v1.05 - Check that the HISTORY component is present before reading.
- Pass ndimx=7 to dat_shape as this is the maximum allowed.
v1.04 - Extracted from PDL distribution and released standalone.
- Uses Module::Build
- Fixes to bad value support.
- FITS header parsing now done by Astro::FITS::Header
- Status handling much improved.
- Add quickread option to rndf that only reads the primary
data array and FITS header.
v1.03 - Bad value support added by Doug Burke
