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Re: format string with many many quotation marks [message #54738 is a reply to message #54736]

Thu, 05 July 2007 14:01

rchughes
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Registered: April 2006

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On Jul 5, 4:37 pm, "Ryan." <rchug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm trying to create a format string that looks like this: ( 5("'",
> A0, "'", :, ", ") ) <- There are single quotation marks between the
> first two double quotations.
>
> I want to get something like this
>
> a = SINDGEN(6)
> print, a, FORMAT=val_fmt
>
> to get:
> '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5'
>
> What i currently have for a format string is this:
> val_fmt = '( ' + STRTRIM(STRING(cnt), 2) + $
> '(' + "'" + ', A0, ' + "'" + ', :, ", ") )'
>
> This one is wrong because it does not contain the double quotation
> marks enclosing the single quotation marks. Can someone please
> explain to me how I could do it or tips on how to use the BYTE method
> to produce a string output like this.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan.

Hey All,

I've solved my own problem. For those who are interested i just had
to split it up into many pieces:
val_fmt='( 5(' + '"' + "'" + '"' + ', A0, ' + '"' + "'" + '"' + ', :,
", ") )'

If anyone has an easier, feel free to post. =)

Ryan.

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