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Re: Printing multiple columns in IDL [message #61771]

Fri, 01 August 2008 06:01

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Joost Aan de Brugh writes:

> Now I read this thread I was wondering how I could solve my printf-
> problem. I have a procedure that prints out data in a huge 2D array. I
> cannot know beforehand how much data has to be put into the file (That
> depends on how my research is going on and if I knew that beforehand,
> it wouldn't be research). I used:
>
> dataline =3D strjoin(string(data[*,0])) ; All rows should have equal
> length
> width =3D strlen(dataline) > max(strlen(headerlines))
> openw,lun,'filename.dat',/Get_Lun,Width=3Dwidth
>
> And because my data consists of doubles and I use default format
> everywhere, I see that my width is 16 times the number of data
> columns. My width was 160. Now I wrote such a file and I see that all
> my data rows are cut at 9 values. The line is 144 long and the next
> line (containing the tenth column) is 16 long. This also happens for
> other number of columns. I tried to add one to the width for safety,
> but that does not work.
>
> Why does this not work and can anyone help me?

Weird. Have you tried using a format statement?

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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		Re: Printing multiple columns in IDL By: David Fanning on Fri, 01 August 2008 06:01
		Re: Printing multiple columns in IDL By: Joost Aan de Brugh on Fri, 01 August 2008 05:52
		Re: Printing multiple columns in IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 30 July 2008 20:16
		Re: Printing multiple columns in IDL By: Ying Wu on Wed, 30 July 2008 19:59
		Re: Printing multiple columns in IDL By: Chris[6] on Wed, 30 July 2008 19:53
		Re: Printing multiple columns in IDL By: Carsten Lechte on Mon, 04 August 2008 01:07
		Re: Printing multiple columns in IDL By: Joost Aan de Brugh on Fri, 01 August 2008 07:55

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