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Re: representive digits [message #29137 is a reply to message #29135]

Mon, 04 February 2002 06:17

andrea.pitacco
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Registered: February 2002

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On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 13:46:58 +0100, Reimar Bauer
<r.bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I am searching for a routine to copy numbers to their
> representive digits in a string.
>
> e.g
>
> float : 6 digits
>
> numbers=[(1/3.)*1000., !pi*10000.]
>
> print,numbers,format='(F20.5)'
>
> gives a fix mask and returns:
>
> 333.33334
> 31415.92773
>
>
> what I like to have is :
>
> 333.333
> 31415.9
>
> Any ideas ?

IDL> numbers=[(1/3.)*1000., !pi*10000.]
IDL> digNo=6

IDL> Print, StrMid(StrTrim(String(Float(numbers)),2),0,digNo+1)
333.333 31415.9

Andrea

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		Re: representive digits By: R.Bauer on Tue, 05 February 2002 09:04
		Re: representive digits By: R.Bauer on Tue, 05 February 2002 09:01
		Re: representive digits By: James Kuyper on Mon, 04 February 2002 07:28
		Re: representive digits By: R.Bauer on Mon, 04 February 2002 07:18
		Re: representive digits By: andrea.pitacco on Mon, 04 February 2002 06:17

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