comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Re: Formatting output

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: Formatting output

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: Formatting output [message #23435 is a reply to message #23434]

Fri, 26 January 2001 16:10

davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996

Senior Member

Guillaume Dargaud (dargaud@sung3.ifsi.rm.cnr.it) writes:

> I want to format a string output but can't get it straight. Basically I want
> floats to converts to a string with no space, no decimals and no dots.
> I've tried many ways, here's the latest:
>
> FOR i = 0, OrbNum-1 DO xtn[i]=STRING( $
> fix(OrbArray[i,0]),fix(OrbArray[i,5]),$
> fix(OrbArray[i,6]), FORMAT='(I," ",I,"h",I)')
>
> But it comes out with spaces...

I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do
here, because you a putting at least one space
in with your format statement. But you could
probably eliminate most of the others by
using I0 as the integer format specifier.
The zero indicates that IDL should use the
"natural" width of the number.

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: Formatting output By: mohamed_nur on Fri, 26 January 2001 16:19
		Re: Formatting output By: davidf on Fri, 26 January 2001 16:10
		Re: Formatting output By: Richard French on Fri, 26 January 2001 15:38
		Re: Formatting output By: Guillaume Dargaud on Mon, 29 January 2001 11:50

Previous Topic:	Reading GrADS data file in IDL
Next Topic:	Re: Creating a sphere (Object Graphics)

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Wed Oct 08 20:14:53 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.02449 seconds