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Re: Really really long format keywords [message #27385 is a reply to message #27383]

Mon, 22 October 2001 12:26

John-David T. Smith is currently offline

John-David T. Smith
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Registered: January 2000

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"Liam E. Gumley" wrote:
>
> Sean Raffuse wrote:
>> I would like to write formatted output to a file. My problem is that my
>> format specifications are too long to fit on one line in IDL, yet I would
>> like all of the data to be written to one line.
>>
>> eg.
>>
>> printf, lun, data, format = '(a5, 5x, f5.2, f5.2 . . . . . and so on . . .
>> . . . . . .)
>>
>> Is there a character that I can use that works like the '$' character inside
>> this string?
>
> printf, lun, data, format = '(a5, 5x, f5.2,' + $
> 'f5.2, a20, i13.3)'

By the way, did you know IDLWAVE will do this for you? [M-Ret] is the
continuation keystroke. In a regular line, it will insert `$' and move
to the next line (indented appropriately of course). Inside of a
string, it will close the string, insert "+ $", and start the string
again on the next line. It even works for existing strings.

Example:

a= 'Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid.'

positioning on the g in good and hit [M-Ret] yields:

a= 'Now is the time for all ' + $
'good men to come to the aid.'

This is especially useful when a line which formerly fit gets moved over
by indentation changes (another enclosing if block, anyone?).

JD

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		Re: Really really long format keywords By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 22 October 2001 14:04
		Re: Really really long format keywords By: Sean Raffuse on Mon, 22 October 2001 12:59
		Re: Really really long format keywords By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 22 October 2001 12:21
		Re: Really really long format keywords By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 22 October 2001 12:26
		Re: Really really long format keywords By: Liam E. Gumley on Mon, 22 October 2001 11:40
		Re: Really really long format keywords By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 22 October 2001 11:42

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