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Re: FORMAT question [message #27056 is a reply to message #27049]

Fri, 05 October 2001 08:11

Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997

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Reimar Bauer wrote:
>
> Paul Manusiu wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Does anyone if its possible to use a function or variable as a parameter
>> or option to FORMAT ?
>> ;e.g. if I have
>> print, blah, FORMAT = '(2(F6.1))'
>> ; but I want something like this
>> for var = 0, 10 do $
>> print, blah[var,*], FORMAT = '(var(F6.1))'
>>
>> Any help please will be much appreciated
>>
>> Paul M.
>
> Dear Paul,
>
> this is the first time I am able to give totally the same answer
> to someone in this newsgroup at the same day. Don't you read others
> articles?

Actually your reply doesn't directly apply to the problem he's having - i.e. a repreat
specifier in a format statements - although your software might.

In any case, apart from Andrew's solution, I would also try:

IDL> var=2
IDL> fmt='('+strtrim(var,2)+'(f6.1))'
IDL> print, fmt
(2(f6.1))

to avoid the need for _another_ format when outputting var into the format string.

paulv

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		Re: FORMAT question By: R.Bauer on Sun, 07 October 2001 23:52
		Re: FORMAT question By: Phillip David on Fri, 05 October 2001 12:45
		Re: FORMAT question By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 05 October 2001 08:11
		Re: FORMAT question By: Paul Manusiu on Fri, 05 October 2001 07:13
		Re: FORMAT question By: R.Bauer on Fri, 05 October 2001 05:15
		Re: FORMAT question By: A. D. & J.C. Cool on Fri, 05 October 2001 03:55

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