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Re: Change in behavior of string constants? [message #1641]

Wed, 05 January 1994 06:36

knipp
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In article 6569@ll.mit.edu, ryba@ll.mit.edu (Marty Ryba) writes:
> We just updated to IDL Version 3.5.1 from 3.0, and this stopped working:
>
> tlab = string(flight, pass, desc, ihroll, $
> format = '("Flight ",i0," Pass ",i0," - ",a,", ",f5.1,"\xca Roll")')
> xyouts, 0.5, 0.93, tlab, /normal, alignment = 0.5, size = 1.5
>
> The \xca gave me the degree symbol with Helvetica Bold on a PostScript
> printer. With the new version, I get, literally, \xca in the string.
> I looked through the release notes, and there was no mention in changing the
> specification of octal or hexadecimal string constants. Help!
>
> --
> Dr. Marty Ryba | Generation X:
> MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Too young to be cynical,

Sorry, this is no solution to your problem, just a note.

We noticed the quite the same when updating from 3.0 :

With 3.0 we could use

PRINT,'\007' ; bell
PRINT,'\x08' ; move cursor to the left

Now we do the following:

PRINT, string(7b)
PRINT, string(8b)

Karl

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		Re: Change in behavior of string constants? By: knipp on Wed, 05 January 1994 06:36
		Re: Change in behavior of string constants? By: ryba on Wed, 05 January 1994 12:01
		Re: Change in behavior of string constants? By: djackson on Wed, 05 January 1994 09:09

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