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Re: Appending Numbers to Strings in IDL [message #48990 is a reply to message #48989]

Mon, 05 June 2006 14:54

steve
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Registered: March 1991

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Hey Todd,
You just need to use StrTrim to get rid of the leading spaces. So when
you create your string you would do it like this:
name + StrTrim(string(variable),2)

Hope that helps,
Steve

toddbranch wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm new to IDL, and have only been using it for two weeks. I bought
> Liam Gumley's book and it has been quite helpful so far. The program
> I'm writing requires me to identify different objects within an image.
> Since there may be more than one, I append a variable number to the end
> of the file name string to differentiate between objects.
>
> I know that you can append numbers to a string like this:
> string+string(variable)
>
> But, that leaves a lot of whitespace in front of the number. Is there
> a way to eliminate this whitespace?
> I want it to work like this:
> string+string(variable)=stringvariable, not string variable
>
> Thanks a lot for your help,
>
> Branch

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		Re: Appending Numbers to Strings in IDL By: Jo Klein on Tue, 06 June 2006 10:08
		Re: Appending Numbers to Strings in IDL By: toddbranch on Mon, 05 June 2006 15:06
		Re: Appending Numbers to Strings in IDL By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 05 June 2006 14:59
		Re: Appending Numbers to Strings in IDL By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 05 June 2006 14:57
		Re: Appending Numbers to Strings in IDL By: steve on Mon, 05 June 2006 14:54

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