Hi,

I been looking around and could spot anything on this. Quite often I want to read a homogeneous block of data from within a file. The skiprows option is great for missing out the section before the data starts, but if there is anything below then loadtxt will choke. I wondered if there was a possibility to put an endmarker= ?

For example, if I want to load text from a large! file that looks like this

header line header line 1 2.0 3.0 2 4.5 5.7 ... 500 4.3 5.4 END more headers more headers 1 2.0 3.0 3.14 1.1414 2 4.5 5.7 1.14 3.1459 ... 500 4.3 5.4 0.000 0.001 END

Then I can use skiprows=2, but loadtxt will choke when it gets to 'END'. To read t