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Re: handling numbers [message #33244 is a reply to message #33179]

Sun, 15 December 2002 13:13

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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<wmc@bas.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3dfa6197@news.nwl.ac.uk...
> Richard Adams <rja46@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 000237.9
>>>
>>> and I would like to write them in this form:
>>> 00 02 37.9
>
>> a = '000235.8'
>> print, (STREGEX(a, '(..)(..)(....)', /SUBEXPR, /extract))[1:*]
>> 00 02 35.8
>
> In other words, use perl...

a = '000235.8'
b = byte(a)
print, string(b[0:1]), ' ', string(b[2:3]), ' ', string(b[4:*])

Eat your heart out, Perl...

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Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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