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Re: axis and the like [message #10527 is a reply to message #10440]

Fri, 05 December 1997 00:00

Kevin Ivory
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Registered: January 1997

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David Fanning wrote:
> Kevin Ivory and Tim Osborn both came up with the same
> method for suppressing axis labels. Kevin wrote:

Actually, I was more proud of the second method that doesn't call
another external function. ;-)

> But what I've always done (and I am ashamed to say I
> don't even *really* know why it works) is this:
>
> Plot, data, XTickformat='(A1)'

The answer is, you are printing the first character of whatever STRING
makes of your numerical tick value. In most cases that will be a space.
To get the idea of what happens, compare
print, format='(a)', 1.
and
print, format='(a1)', 1.

I tried to find an example where your method fails, but that is not as
easy as I thought - perhaps impossible.

Cheers
Kevin
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