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Re: Formatting WRITE_CSV output [message #70888]

Thu, 13 May 2010 12:45

fgg
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Registered: April 2010

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> Not directly. If your data are strings, you can format them first,
> then give them to write_csv, such as
>
> write_csv,file,string(data1,format=...),string(data2,format= ...)
>
> But write_csv encapsulates strings in quotes, which is probably
> undesirable if your data were not strings.
>
> So it is probably better to use plain old printf with the format you
> want plus the commas to separate the fields.

Thanks, pp. I guess I'll go with printf. Another disadvantage of
write_csv is that it limits the number of output columns to 8.

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