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Re: Simple number formatting problem [message #21038 is a reply to message #21023]

Fri, 04 August 2000 00:00

Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997

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Craig Markwardt wrote:
>
> "Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz> writes:
>
>> "Luis Alonso" <luis.alonso@uv.es> wrote in message
>> news:8mbrv6$ra0$1@peque.uv.es...
>>>> p.s. F95 has a new formatting option, i0, which would print out 1 as
>>>> "1", 10 as "10" etc. i.e. the leading blanks removed. Maybe this should
>>>> go on a future IDL feature request list....? :o)
>>>
>>> strtrim do remove leading blanks. and it would not be longer to write than
>>> the Format thing.
>>
>> Yes, but removal of leading blanks via a format code would be handy for use
>> with TICKFORMAT.
>
> Not sure what you folks are arguing about. IDL has had the I0 format
> code for as long as I've known, and does exactly what you want!
>
> Craig
>
> Example:
> IDL> print, 1, format='("<",I0,">")'
> <1>
> IDL> print, 10, format='("<",I0,">")'
> <10>

Aww, crap. Thanks for pointing this out. RTFM shure helps. <insert
embarrassed grin right here>

paulv
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