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Re: hexadecimal variables [message #15224 is a reply to message #15093]

Mon, 26 April 1999 00:00

wmc
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Registered: February 1995

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wmc@bas.ac.uk wrote:
> Pavel Romashkin <promashkin@cmdl.noaa.gov> wrote:
>> h_string = '40000FC0DA'

> wmc> h_long = long64(h_string+''x)
> Seems to work perfectly well
> wmc> print,h_long
> 4398043954346

Oops, I didn't check this properly. I just looked at the above & thought it
was about right, but IDL has been fooling me:

I thought the string+''x syntax ought to work (why doesn't it?) but it doesn't,
it just doesn't always generate an error message. Oh dear. In fact:

wmc> h_string='10' & h_long = long(h_string+''x) & print,h_long
-2596734
wmc> h_string='10' & h_long = long(h_string+''xl) & print,h_long

h_string='10' & h_long = long(h_string+'
^
% Long integer constant must be less than 2147483648.

I'm confused..., but I suspect IDL is too...

-W

btw: { alpha OSF unix 5.2 Oct 30 1998}

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		hexadecimal variables By: Pavel Romashkin on Wed, 21 April 1999 00:00
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