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Re: my god this should be easy! [message #12252 is a reply to message #12251]

Fri, 24 July 1998 00:00

mallors
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In article <6p8btl$2ub$1@filet.nrlssc.navy.mil>,
"T Bowers" <tbowers@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:
> what the...
> how in the world do i write my data to a text file so it's tab delimited?
>
> sizeInfo = size(myData)
> fmt = "(" + strtrim(string(sizeInfo[1]),2) + "(F0, TR1))"
> printf, myFile, myData, FORMAT = fmt
>

You can print a tab using its byte value:

PRINT, 'x', STRING (9B), 'x'

A newline can be printed with STRING (10B), and
just for fun, try PRINT, STRING (7B)

-bob

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