I've got a file with data in it that I want povray to consider (read).

There are several lines in the file which I want povray to ignore outright.
Others have text like,
[quote]
TEXTONE TEXTTWO TEXTTHREE  0.0 34.00 27.0
[/quote]
.... where I want povray to be able to use the values of 0.0, 34.00, and 27.0 as
variables in what it does.

I could probably use a spreadsheet or text editor to re-format the file with
#declares and brackets and the like, but with great headaches. And that would
sort of ruin the whole point of my exercise.

Q: is there any way to get povray to read space-separated variables, to ignore
lines in a file it has #opened which are bad povray syntax. ?

May I do something like:

#fopen MyInput file
#read Garbage_variable
#read Garbage_variable,Garbage_variable,Garbage_variable, Useful_variable_01,
Useful_variable_02, Useful_variable_01

etc?

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