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Re: strjoin - IDL 4 dummies [message #46375 is a reply to message #46374]

Tue, 15 November 2005 07:15

Robert Moss
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Registered: February 1996

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Liberum wrote:
> Hi
>
> Having a problem with strjoin when doing the following:
>
> date = string(date)
> print, size(date,/tname)
> s = strjoin(["some_path_to_files", exp, date, '*h5'],"/",/single)
> print, s
> where date exp is already a string.
> IDL prints:
>
> STRING
> /data/proj/safworks/sheldon/MSG_PPS_COMP/data/pps/cloudmask/
> 200412/*hdf
>
> Now, it is this space that I cannot get rid of. I am certain that
> everything element in the list are strings but this space still shows
> up.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
> Lib
>

I cannot see the space in your post, but I am guessing it is just before
the date. Try this

date = strtrim( date, 2 )

This will remove leading and trailing spaces, which string() does not.

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Robert Moss, PhD

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