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Re: Really really long format keywords [message #27389 is a reply to message #27387]

Mon, 22 October 2001 11:42

Randall Skelton
Messages: 169
Registered: October 2000

Senior Member

What about just concatenating strings...

a = '(a5, 5x, '
b = 'f5.2, f5.2)'
ab = a + b

printf, lun, data, format = ab

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean Raffuse

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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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