File Access Routines

See the following categories under "Input/Output" (IDL Quick Reference) for a list of available file and data access routines:

Image Data Formats — includes read and write routines for supported image formats (such as JPEG, TIFF, DICOM, etc.), and routines that launch dialogs for image file access.

Scientific Data Formats — includes CDF, EOS, NCDF, HDF, and HDF5 routines.

Other Data Formats — includes routines that access ASCII, BINARY, XML, and other non-image data formats.

General Input/Output — includes READ, WRITE and other routines commonly used when accessing unformatted data. Also see Files and Input/Output for information on using these routines and formatting your data.