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Re: Obtaining exponent from a scientific format number [message #30306 is a reply to message #30287]

Wed, 17 April 2002 10:07

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Dick Jackson (dick@d-jackson.com) writes:

> Here's a way that you might like, but I know some others won't, as it uses
> the mysterious and cryptic "regular expressions" feature.
> ; " * . * e *"
> strPieces = StRegEx(str, '(.*)(\.)(.*)(e)(.*)', /Extract, /SubExpr)
> ; strPieces now contains StrArr(6, n), columns 1-5 hold the pieces

I just think anything that has a bunch of &%#@s in it
is a real programmer's solution, using real programmer
language! :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Obtaining exponent from a scientific format number By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 18 April 2002 01:41
		Re: Obtaining exponent from a scientific format number By: Dick Jackson on Wed, 17 April 2002 15:21
		Re: Obtaining exponent from a scientific format number By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 April 2002 10:07
		Re: Obtaining exponent from a scientific format number By: Dick Jackson on Wed, 17 April 2002 09:56
		Re: Obtaining exponent from a scientific format number By: Michael Baca on Wed, 17 April 2002 09:50

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