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FORMAT question [message #65894]

Fri, 27 March 2009 07:25

natha
Messages: 482
Registered: October 2007

Senior Member

Hi folks,

I used to use the Embedded Formatting Commands to print strings with a
nice format, know I've a question.
I've the following float: 65465.45

And I want to represent it as a string in a IDLgrText object.
The result I want is something like this:
aa=OBJ_NEW('IDLgrText',STRING='6.5x10!U4',/ENABLE_FORMATTING )
XOBJVIEW, aa

My "problem" is that I don't know how to convert it as a string using
the FORMAT KEYWORD of the STRING FUNCTION.
I mean, I want to use a code like this:
f=65465.45
aa=OBJ_NEW('IDLgrText',STRING=STRING(f,FORMAT='xxxxxxx'),/
ENABLE_FORMATTING)
XOBJVIEW, aa

And I need the an expression 'xxxxxxxx' in order to obtain my result.
Any suggestions?

Is it possible ?
Thanks,
llo

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