My question is: Can this be done in a script? Alternativly
can this be done at all (e.g. via a template)?

Example ascii-file:

##TITLE=Mass Profile Spectrum of 9901-45 + 46
##JEOL-DX 2.00

##SAMPLE NAME= 3-methyl-2-butanol-1,1,1-d3
##NPOINTS= 1245
##DATA=
44.5016 159705
44.5030 158809

##END=

I wrote:
> I'm currently programming a script to import data from
> an ascii-file. This file contains multiple headerlines
> (about 25) with important information that would be
> very interesting to extract from the file (the data format
> of the ascii-file is "JEOL-DX" from af Tandem Mass Spectrometer)
> and plottet on the resulting graph.
>
> My question is: Can this be done in a script? Alternativly
> can this be done at all (e.g. via a template)?

And the answer is, yes! All information in the imported ascii-file
which is not in two columns, is stored in the system-variable %Z.

This can without problems be manipulated (e.g. extract lines).

An example: label -p 60 (-8) -s Measured %[%[%Z,@6],>'='];
Gives all text to the right of "=" in line number 6 of the header.

And maybe more interessting. I can place the entire header in the script-
window. This way you don't HAVE to read all header infomation, but you
don't loose it.

Like this: type -a %Z;

> Example ascii-file:
>
> ##TITLE=Mass Profile Spectrum of 9901-45 + 46
> ##JEOL-DX 2.00
>
> ##SAMPLE NAME= 3-methyl-2-butanol-1,1,1-d3
> ##NPOINTS= 1245
> ##DATA=
> 44.5016 159705
> 44.5030 158809

> ##END=

I hope others can use this information. BTW, Origin Tech Support
couldn't tell me this when I asked...

Henrik