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Re: using print statement to print to memory or a variable? [message #81111 is a reply to message #81110]

Thu, 16 August 2012 13:24

Michael Galloy
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On 8/16/12 2:03 PM, Mark Q wrote:
> Pardon me if this is general knowledge, but I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to use a print statement to print to a plot, so to speak.
>
> The basic idea is this. I have some complicated code which eventually contains a line:
>
> printf,lun,"some format here", var1,var2,var3
>
> which prints to the screen or a file.
>
> As I recall, in fortran it's possible to print to memory (or print to a variable), and then to read that string from memory, which I could then send to a plot. For obnoxious reasons, I'd rather do this than rewrite the code to actually generate a character string...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>

STRING and PRINT/PRINTF take arguments and format strings in the same
manner, so it's not hard to change between them, i.e.,

printf, lun, a, b, c, format=format_string

or

s = string(a, b, c, format=format_string)

Mike
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		Re: using print statement to print to memory or a variable? By: DavidF[1] on Thu, 16 August 2012 14:20
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		Re: using print statement to print to memory or a variable? By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 16 August 2012 13:24

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