| Re: Basic format code question [message #50655 is a reply to message #50653] |
Mon, 16 October 2006 03:16   |
Foldy Lajos
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Registered: October 2001
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I don't think so. There is no space between the fields, the space you see
is padding space inside the fields. For floats, the width of the field is
13, which results in no padding space in this case. My Fortran instinct
says that no extra space is required, and I think IDL mimics Fortran here.
regards,
lajos
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, greg michael wrote:
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> That's good that FL can do that, but correctly, they should both write
> the numbers with an extra space...
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> Greg
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> FÖLDY Lajos wrote:
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>> OK, I have discovered, that FL does the same :-). So it cames from the
>> underlying system C library.
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>> On the other hand, FL can read back the following line, it can recognize,
>> that the '-' sign is the beginning of the next number:
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>> 11.0335 11.0503 11.0615-1.60416e+006 1.05404e+007
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>> I think IDL should do the same.
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>> regards,
>> lajos
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