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STRING( ) confusion [message #39384]

Wed, 12 May 2004 02:41

Chris Lee
Messages: 101
Registered: August 2003

Senior Member

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

s="abcdefghijlmnopqrstuvwxyz"
help, string(s,s)
<Expression> STRING = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrs'...
;the string <54 characters

help, string(s,s,"ab")
<Expression> STRING = Array[2]
;the string >=54 characters

print, string(s,s,"ab")
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ab

Does anybody know why this might happen? The same happens in the idlde,
where the number of characters used is the terminal size when the idlde
is launched. (Redhat 7.3, I think).

Chris.

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