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Re: checking a special character in a single string [message #93172 is a reply to message #93166]

Thu, 05 May 2016 09:37

Heinz Stege
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Registered: January 2003

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On Thu, 5 May 2016 07:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Sapna Mishra wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a string say:
> obj='J165248.4+363212.5'
>
> I want to know the place where my this + sign has come say here at 10th place .
>
> I did:
> n=where(strmatch(obj,'+*',/FOLD_CASE) EQ 1)
>
> but it is simply giving me n=1.
>
> can any one tell how to proceed ?
>
IDL> obj='J165248.4+363212.5'
IDL> print,strpos(obj,'+')
9

> Also if i want to remove all the numbers after '.' (decimal) how to do?
> with strjoin+strsplit it is simply removing decimal sign and clubbing all numbers together. I don't want numbers after decimal how to do???

IDL> print,strmid(obj,0,strpos(obj,'.'))
J165248

Cheers, Heinz

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		checking a special character in a single string By: Sapna Mishra on Thu, 05 May 2016 07:28
		Re: checking a special character in a single string By: Burch on Thu, 05 May 2016 09:08
		Re: checking a special character in a single string By: Burch on Thu, 05 May 2016 09:15
		Re: checking a special character in a single string By: Sapna Mishra on Thu, 05 May 2016 09:30
		Re: checking a special character in a single string By: Heinz Stege on Thu, 05 May 2016 09:37

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