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Re: FORMAT question [message #27062 is a reply to message #27060]

Fri, 05 October 2001 03:55

A. D. & J.C. Cool
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Registered: February 2000

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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.

Hi Paul,

Try building up your format string :-

> IDL> var = 2
> IDL> format_str='('+ string(var,form='(i2)') + '(f6.1))'
> IDL> print,format_str
> ( 2(f6.1))
> IDL> y=[1254.643,643.804]
> IDL> print,y,format=format_str
> 1254.6 643.8
>

There's probably a kosher way of doing this, but hey, it works...

Andrew Cool

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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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