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Re: Real Number on PVWAVE [message #17976 is a reply to message #17901]

Thu, 18 November 1999 00:00

daniele.monti
Messages: 3
Registered: November 1999

Junior Member

On 18 Nov 1999 09:47:46 GMT, "Adrian Clark" <adrian.clark@gecm.com>
wrote:

> Dear Daniele,
>
> It looks to me as though WAVE is interpreting your numbers as floats and
> then truncating them. Did you specify your variable as a double before
> reading? I suspect that if this is not specified, float is the expected
> default when a '.' is found in a number. I got the following to work:
>
> wave> DELVAR,varArray
> make sure varArray doesn't already exist as a float from previous attempts!
> wave> varArray=DBLARR(1)
> tell wave to expect doubles
> wave> status=DC_READ_FREE('filename',varArray,/resize)
> /resize will resize varArray to cope with amount of data present
> wave> PRINT,varArray,Format="(D11.5)"
> print it in whatever format seems appropriate
>
> HTH
>
> Yours,
> Adrian
>

Thank you, thank you very much !!!
It works !!!

Cheers,

Daniele

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		Real Number on PVWAVE By: daniele.monti on Wed, 17 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Real Number on PVWAVE By: davidf on Fri, 19 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Real Number on PVWAVE By: Tim Cross on Fri, 19 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Real Number on PVWAVE By: rkj on Fri, 19 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Real Number on PVWAVE By: davidf on Thu, 18 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Real Number on PVWAVE By: rkj on Thu, 18 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Real Number on PVWAVE By: daniele.monti on Thu, 18 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Real Number on PVWAVE By: Adrian Clark on Mon, 22 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Real Number on PVWAVE By: rkj on Fri, 19 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Real Number on PVWAVE By: rkj on Mon, 29 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Real Number on PVWAVE By: Andrew J Leaper on Mon, 29 November 1999 00:00

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