PRO sev_2_noah, filepattern, outputfile files=file_search(filepattern) IF files[0] EQ '' THEN BEGIN print, "File(s) not found : ", filepattern return ENDIF IF n_elements(outputfile) EQ 0 THEN outputfile='SEVUDS1' FOR i=0,n_elements(files)-1 DO BEGIN junk=load_cols(files[i], data) ; read the year out of a file named luis0x.txt year=fix(strmid(files[i], 4, 2))+2000 ENDFOR END