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Re: FROM 5.12345 TO 5.12 [message #24163]

Sat, 10 March 2001 23:52

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Mark Chan (chanm@cadvision.com) writes:

> x=[5.12345, 45.378, 1300.3221, ...]
>
> xyouts, 5,7, x[0]
>
> Will give: 5.12345 (in some window)
>
> Want: 5.12
>
> xyouts, 5,7,format='(f4.2)',x[0] ---- not allowed, although the following
> is allowed but not what I need
>
> print,format='(f4.2)',x[0] ---- not what I need
>
>
> Any suggestion?

How about this:

xyouts, 5,7,String(x[0],format='(f4.2)')

:-)

Cheers,

David

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