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Re: concatenating strings [message #85702 is a reply to message #85695]

Wed, 28 August 2013 14:58

kagoldberg
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Registered: November 2012

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> So the leading spaces are created by the 'caldat' function when it outputs the variables, right?
This is not correct. The mon, day, year values are numbers, not strings, so they have no inherent spaces. The leading spaces are inserted when you convert them to strings without specifying a formatting for string() to use.

You could choose to format them like this
string(year, FORMAT='(i4.4)') + string(mon, FORMAT='(i2.2)') + string(day, FORMAT='(i2.2)') or
string(year, mon, day, FORMAT='(i4.4,i2.2,i2.2)')

the code "i2" means you want an integer that has 2 digits (including possible leading space), and the ".2" means to pad single digit results with leading zeros to make the number always have 2 digits. Similar for the "i4.4"

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		concatenating strings By: Seb on Tue, 27 August 2013 15:56
		Re: concatenating strings By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 27 August 2013 16:11
		Re: concatenating strings By: Seb on Tue, 27 August 2013 16:31
		Re: concatenating strings By: kagoldberg on Wed, 28 August 2013 14:58
		Re: concatenating strings By: Phillip Bitzer on Tue, 27 August 2013 16:32
		Re: concatenating strings By: Seb on Wed, 28 August 2013 06:29

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