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Re: [Q]: reading hexadecimal numbers from text files [message #24513 is a reply to message #24512]

Mon, 02 April 2001 17:07

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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David Fanning (davidf@dfanning.com) writes:

> I have no idea how to read 'CS' into a short integer, but
> hexadecimal values are quite straightforward.

Well, "no idea" is perhaps too strong. You can turn
the string "CS" into a integer value like this:

IDL> variable = "CS"
IDL> var = Fix(Byte(variable), 0)
IDL> Print, var
21315

I'm just not sure that's what you really wanted to do. :-(

Cheers,

David

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