| Re: STRING( ) confusion [message #39377] |
Wed, 12 May 2004 07:16 |
Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996
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"Christopher Lee" <cl@127.0.0.1> writes:
> Hi,
>
> So I was running out of screen real estate, I made my IDL command line
> xterm smaller, and caused a 'feature' of STRING to appear. E.g. If the
> xterm is 55 characters wide
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> s="abcdefghijlmnopqrstuvwxyz"
> help, string(s,s)
> <Expression> STRING = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrs'...
> ;the string <54 characters
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> help, string(s,s,"ab")
> <Expression> STRING = Array[2]
I would say, in situations where you need a specific line layout, it's
pretty important to use an explicit FORMAT expression, and not rely on
IDL to format it for you.
Craig
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