Skip first row of data in IDL

Question

I have a dataset that looks like this

0.000000     0.000000
1123.65      9.86156
1123.91      11.6620
1124.17      11.0899
1124.43      12.7743
1124.69      13.1157
1124.94      12.4047
1125.20      14.4865
1125.46      9.71926
1125.72      8.83414
1125.98      12.2079
1126.24      10.3670
1126.50      8.72245
1126.76      10.2243
1127.02      10.2417

I'm using readcol to read the data, the first column in rest_wavelength and the second column is of flux. The plot is distrubed because of the first 0.0000 row, how can I skip this row in IDL?

Answer 1

The easiest thing is probably to use SKIPLINE on READCOL, i.e.:

readcol, filename, rest_wavelength, flux, skipline=1

You could also just index after the fact:

rest_wavelength = rest_wavelength[1:*]
flux = flux[1:*]