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Re: Really really long format keywords [message #27383 is a reply to message #27382]

Mon, 22 October 2001 12:21

Paul van Delst
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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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