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Re: Padding numbers [message #42733 is a reply to message #42439]

Mon, 21 February 2005 09:13

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:19:25 -0600, Michael Wallace wrote:

>> IDL> print,systime(/JULIAN), FORMAT = $
>> IDL> '(C(CDI, X, CMoA, X, CYI, X, CHI2.2, ":", CMI2.2, ":", CSI2.2))'
>> 3 Feb 2005 08:49:40
>
> Thanks, that did it. This is what I get for not being raised on FORTRAN
> format codes. ;-)

With IDL6.1, you can zero-pad like this as well:

IDL> print,FORMAT='(I02)',3
03

Why is this any better? Because you can do it with floating point
values too:

IDL> print,FORMAT='(F08.5)',!PI
03.14159

It also gracefully degrades to blank padding in versions <6.1.

JD

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