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Re: floats from strings... duh! [message #4418 is a reply to message #4362]

Wed, 31 May 1995 00:00

velt
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Registered: June 1994

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In article <3q4tku$iqu@dux.dundee.ac.uk>, pjclinch@dux.dundee.ac.uk (Pete Clinch) writes:
>
>
> Rather than write my own function to convert "1.234" to 1.234, is there a
> way in the system to do it easily?

Try:

IDL> help,float('1.234')
<Expression> FLOAT = 1.23400

Robert Velthuizen (velt@rad.usf.edu),
Digital Medical Imaging Program of the
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at the
University of South Florida, Tampa FL 33612.

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		floats from strings... duh! By: pjclinch on Fri, 26 May 1995 00:00
		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: velt on Wed, 31 May 1995 00:00
		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: rarback on Tue, 30 May 1995 00:00
		Re: floats from strings... duh! By: sterner on Tue, 30 May 1995 00:00
		Re: Floats By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 March 2006 18:42
		Re: Floats By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 09 March 2006 05:11
		Re: Floats By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 08 March 2006 18:24
		Re: Floats By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 March 2006 16:33
		Re: Floats By: Andrew Cool on Thu, 09 March 2006 15:16
		Re: Floats By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 March 2006 16:19
		Re: Floats By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 08 March 2006 15:59
		Re: Floats By: James Kuyper on Thu, 09 March 2006 03:10
		Re: Floats By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 March 2006 13:54
		Re: Floats By: Liberum on Wed, 08 March 2006 13:42
		Re: Floats By: Liberum on Wed, 08 March 2006 13:42
		Re: Floats By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 08 March 2006 13:06
		Re: Floats By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 March 2006 13:00

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