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Re: floats from strings... duh! [message #4437 is a reply to message #4362]

Tue, 30 May 1995 00:00

rarback
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Registered: October 1992

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In article <PHIL.95May27160944@peace.med.ohio-state.edu>,
phil@peace.med.ohio-state.edu (Phil) writes:
> In article <3q568j$5bd@nntp.Stanford.EDU> zowie@banneker.stanford.edu
(Craig DeForest) writes:
>
>> which won't look right because the title will be "Plot number 5"
>> instead of "Plot number 5", so you need to tack another bag on that:
>>
>> plot,mydata,title="Plot number "+strtrim(string(plotno),2)
>>
>
> you could also just use the strcompress function. ie:
> plot,mydata,title="Plot number"+strcompress(plotno)
>
> There is also no need for the trailing space in the "Plot number"
> string since string compress prepends a space.
>

As long as we are all adding our tuppence to favorite ways to format strings:

plot, mydata, title = string( 'Plot number ', plotno, format='(a, i0'))

> Hope this helps.

Double, double!

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		floats from strings... duh! By: pjclinch on Fri, 26 May 1995 00:00
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