Extracting one value from logged ascii packet data

Here is my personal trending tool for work, producing three columns space delimited file that can be imported into Excel

find . -name "*.log" -exec grep Keyword -H {} \; | sed -e 's/: 10/:10/' | awk '{print $1 " " $2 " " $68}' | sed -e 's/.l
og:2/.log: 2/' > ~/output.txt

IDL read csv file

My first search for this turned up more information about the function that is being used, read_csv.pro. However, all links are essentially printouts of the code, and hint that the first row must be a header row. I'm not sure if the version of this function that we have is exactly the same.

http://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~hoekstra/downloads/read_csv.pro

My problem is that my csv file has hexadecimal numbers, and read_csv just happens to be interpreting values with an E in the 2nd from the last digit incorrectly. I'd like it to just read in the entire file as strings and let me do the string to number conversion. There's a "STRINGS" keyword in the listing, but it's not clear how to use it. It looks like you just have to say strings=something, some examples seem to show strings=strings (it doesn't look like the /STRINGS nomenclature that goes with IDL operations).

Then, this forum thread says use readcol if you want to do everything by hand, or just use Readf or read_data_file which I guess will treat the csv file like an array:

http://www.rhinocerus.net/forum/lang-idl-pvwave/118138-reading-csv-file.html