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Re: Really really long format keywords [message #27382 is a reply to message #27377]

Mon, 22 October 2001 12:59

Sean Raffuse
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Registered: July 2001

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Hehe. The longest a line of source code can be is 256 characters

Paul van Delst <paul.vandelst@noaa.gov> wrote in message
news:3BD471CF.3F9DA66@noaa.gov...
> Sean Raffuse wrote:
>>
>> I would like to write formatted output to a file. My problem is that my
>> format specifications are too long to fit on one line in IDL, yet I
would
>> like all of the data to be written to one line.
>>
>> eg.
>>
>> printf, lun, data, format = '(a5, 5x, f5.2, f5.2 . . . . . and so on . .
.
>> . . . . . .)
>>
>> Is there a character that I can use that works like the '$' character
inside
>> this string?
>
> Assuming the format isn't going to change too much and there are
repeatable format specifiers,
> what about:
>
> printf, lun, data, format = '(a5, 5x, 2(1x,f5.2), 7(1x,i10), etc..)'
>
> How long *is* one line allowed to be in IDL source code anyway?
>
> paulv
>
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[Message index]

		Re: Really really long format keywords By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 22 October 2001 14:04
		Re: Really really long format keywords By: Sean Raffuse on Mon, 22 October 2001 12:59
		Re: Really really long format keywords By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 22 October 2001 12:21
		Re: Really really long format keywords By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 22 October 2001 12:26
		Re: Really really long format keywords By: Liam E. Gumley on Mon, 22 October 2001 11:40
		Re: Really really long format keywords By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 22 October 2001 11:42

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