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Re: floats from strings... duh! [message #4359 is a reply to message #4357]

Fri, 26 May 1995 00:00

afl
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In article <3q4tku$iqu@dux.dundee.ac.uk>, pjclinch@dux.dundee.ac.uk (Pete
Clinch) writes:
|>
|> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious... want to do the equivalent of a
|> C sscanf or atof on a string I've got in a PV~Wave program that has a
|> floating point number in string form.
|>
|> Rather than write my own function to convert "1.234" to 1.234, is there a
|> way in the system to do it easily?
|>
|> Thanks.
|>
|> Pete.
|> --
|> Peter Clinch Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
|> voice: 44 1382 660111 x 3637 snail: Directorate of Medical Physics
|> fax: 44 1382 640177 Ninewells Hospital
|> email: p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK

Again, I may be missing the boat here, but is this what you want?

IDL> a = '1.234'
IDL> b = float(a)
IDL> help, b
B FLOAT = 1.23400

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Andrew F. Loughe email: afl@cdc.noaa.gov
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		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: phil on Sat, 27 May 1995 00:00
		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: rivers on Sat, 27 May 1995 00:00
		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: thompson on Fri, 26 May 1995 00:00
		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: afl on Fri, 26 May 1995 00:00
		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: zowie on Fri, 26 May 1995 00:00

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