comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: integer?

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: integer? [message #31622 is a reply to message #31620]

Wed, 31 July 2002 01:32

Nigel Wade
Messages: 286
Registered: March 1998

Senior Member

tom wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> This is a segment of HEX: 00 00 00 64
>
> there are two 2byte-integers in it.
> But when I set
> a=0
> readu,lun,a ; I hope a=hex(00 00)
> print,a
> the result is 100. That's a=hex(00 00 00 64)
> that's the same as "a=0l readu,lun,a"
>
> how to read 2byte integer then?
>
> Tom

Could the number be one little endian 32 bit integer rather than two 16 bit
ones? That would account for the discrepancy.

What platform are you doing this on, and what platform was the data file
created on?

--
-----------------------------------------------------------
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
Phone : +44 (0)116 2523568, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: integer? By: Nigel Wade on Fri, 02 August 2002 02:01
		Re: integer? By: tom on Thu, 01 August 2002 18:07
		Re: integer? By: David Fanning on Wed, 31 July 2002 06:56
		Re: integer? By: Nigel Wade on Wed, 31 July 2002 06:25
		Re: integer? By: tom on Wed, 31 July 2002 05:26
		Re: integer? By: Nigel Wade on Wed, 31 July 2002 01:32
		Re: integer? By: David Fanning on Tue, 30 July 2002 08:34

Previous Topic:	Re: Molecular models and contour maps
Next Topic:	Re: Image scrolling, displaying axes from outside the visible window

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Sat Oct 11 00:26:51 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 1.52229 seconds