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Re: Format code question [message #61396 is a reply to message #35691]

Wed, 16 July 2008 05:30

Bruce Bowler
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Registered: September 1998

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On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:09:00 -0700, lbnc wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> to me, the format code '(I03,",",I03,",",I03)' is the same as
> '(I03,2(",",I03))'. Not, it seems, to IDL:
>
> aa = indgen(2, 3)
> str_aa = string(aa, format='(I03,",",I03,",",I03)') print, str_aa
> str_aa = string(aa, format='(I03,2(",",I03))') print, str_aa
> end
>
> gives here on my machine
>
> 000,001,002 003,004,005
> 000,001,002 ,003,004 ,005,
>
> Anybody knows why? Bug or feature?
>
> Cheers
> Lasse Clausen

"feature" IDL uses the FORTRAN idiom for format statements which says
essential that if there is a "repeat count group" that's as far back as we
go when we need to re-use elements in the format statement. It's sort of
documented in the help files.

Bruce

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