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Re: Casting floating point number into e-notation [message #4554 is a reply to message #4551]

Fri, 09 June 1995 00:00

Tim Hammond
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Registered: June 1995

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cavanaug@uars1.acd.ucar.edu (Charles Cavanaugh) wrote:
>
> Please, please, please somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong with
> my attempt to cast a floating point value into e-notation (using
> our old buddy IDL) :
>

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you were asking, but to read a float
value into a string in exponential form you can simply use:

IDL> a=3.567
IDL> b=strtrim(string(a,format='(e11.4)'),2)
IDL> print,b
3.5670e+00
IDL> help,b
B STRING = '3.5670e+00'

If you actually want to force the numbers themselves to appear in this
format whatever their value then I'm afraid I can't help, sorry...

All the best,

Tim Hammond.

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