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Re: string to array conversion [message #21162 is a reply to message #21005]

Thu, 10 August 2000 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Karsten Schmidt (k.schmidt@vermes.fh-oldenburg.de) writes:

> Hi Alex, thanks for your answer,
> I want to change the stringlength or produce new strings (delete and add
> some words), example:
>
> a=string('llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll')
>
> print,strlen(a)
> 272
> help,a
> A STRING =
> 'lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll'...
> that's allright,
> but if I write:
> word=string('long strings are my problem')
> together=string(word,word,word,word,word,word,word)
> print,strlen(together)
> 162 27
> help,togehter ==> TOGETHER STRING = Array[2]
>
> What's happen and how can I stop it ?

If you want to string words together, you should
use the + sign:

IDL> word1 = 'Hello '
IDL> word2 = 'Karsten'
IDL> word3 = ': How are you?"
IDL> sentence = word1 + word2 + word3
IDL> Print, sentence

Hello Karsten: How are you?

Cheers,

David

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		string to array conversion By: Karsten Schmidt on Wed, 02 August 2000 00:00
		Re: string to array conversion By: Alex Schuster on Wed, 09 August 2000 00:00
		Re: string to array conversion By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 11 August 2000 00:00
		Re: string to array conversion By: R.Bauer on Fri, 11 August 2000 00:00
		Re: string to array conversion By: davidf on Thu, 10 August 2000 00:00
		Re: string to array conversion By: Karsten Schmidt on Thu, 10 August 2000 00:00

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