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Re: Removing the blanks between elements in a string array [message #69712 is a reply to message #69711]

Fri, 29 January 2010 20:46

penteado
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On Jan 30, 2:31 am, "sulli.jj" <sulli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know a easy to way to print out an array with no blanks at
> all?
>
> I have an array of strings like
> a = [[' cat,','d o g,','bi rd ' ],[' 1.23, ',' 4. 56,','
> 7.89 ']]
>
> print, a
> cat, d o g, bi rd
> 1.23, 4. 56, 7.89
>
> I can remove most of the spaces with,
>
> print, STRCOMPRESS(a, /REMOVE_ALL)
> cat, dog, bird
> 1.23, 4.56, 7.89
>

There are no blanks in the array from strcompress with remove_all. The
spaces between elements are put there by print's default format.

Two ways to get what you want are

print,strcompress(a,/remove_all),format='(3A0)'

print,strjoin(strcompress(a,/remove_all)),format='(A0)'

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