function get_floatarr_arr, arr equalpos = strpos(arr[0], '=') temp = strtrim(strmid(arr, equalpos+1)) nentries = n_elements(arr) result = dblarr(3,nentries) for i = 0L, nentries-1 do begin a = double(strsplit(temp[i]," ,", /extract)) result[0:(N_elements(a)-1),i] = a endfor return, result end