| format codes [message #49206] |
Thu, 06 July 2006 16:07  |
Jeff N.
Messages: 120
Registered: April 2005
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Hi folks,
I've been putting this off for some time now. I've learned quite a bit
about IDL programming over the past few years, but there's one aspect
of IDL that still completely baffles me: format codes. The IDL help
files for these things looks to me like they're writting in Martian,
and I really just don't know where to begin. Does anyone know a good
place to look for a basic intro to format codes, hopefully (by
"hopefully" I mean "please, please, PLEASE") having some simple
examples??
Jeff
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| Re: format codes [message #49265 is a reply to message #49206] |
Mon, 10 July 2006 20:28  |
Andrew Cool
Messages: 219
Registered: January 1996
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Senior Member |
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Jeff N. wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been putting this off for some time now. I've learned quite a bit
> about IDL programming over the past few years, but there's one aspect
> of IDL that still completely baffles me: format codes. The IDL help
> files for these things looks to me like they're writting in Martian,
> and I really just don't know where to begin. Does anyone know a good
> place to look for a basic intro to format codes, hopefully (by
> "hopefully" I mean "please, please, PLEASE") having some simple
> examples??
>
> Jeff
Jeff,
Any text on Fortran should do the job nicely.
My 1987 copy of McCracken and Salmon's "Computing for Engineers and
Scientists with Fortran 77" devotes a sizeable appendix to format
codes.
Perhaps you need to search the second-hand book stores? ;-)
Andrew
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