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Sat, 25 July 1998 00:00

Kevin Ivory
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Registered: January 1997

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mirko wrote:
> this will not help you at all, but I found this little trick somewhere
> recently. If you are going to use STRTRIM, no need for STRING.
> Sure simplifies code writing although some purists would claim that
> it confuses the meaning of the code (I am sometimes in that camp).

Omitting a conversion command does not necessarily confuse the meaning
of code. STRTRIM is a command that always operates on strings. Even the
official documentation says, "If this argument is not a string, it is
converted using IDL's default formatting rules."
So, an "IDL purist" might as well argue to omit a redundant conversion
command ;-)

Best regards
Kevin
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