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Re: Formatted printf output [message #76743 is a reply to message #76695]

Mon, 27 June 2011 01:02

Axel Martínez
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Registered: June 2010

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On Jun 22, 6:13 pm, FÖLDY Lajos <fo...@rmki.kfki.hu> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Gray wrote:
>> On Jun 22, 10:15 am, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
>>> In article
>>> < 49155f70-81fc-4da6-8247-ea81b30d0...@l6g2000vbn.googlegroups .com >,
>>> Axel M <axe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I am trying to print a list of numerical values into a .txt file to be
>>>> later imported by Excel. For this purpose, I want to change IDL's
>>>> output when printing from 2.35 to 2,35 (comma).
>>>> I was looking in the format codes in printf but was not successful...
>>>> Somebody has a clue how to do that?
>
>>> You could write the file with periods and then use a text editor
>>> to convert all of the periods to commas.
>
>>> Ken Bowman
>
>> Use REPSTR() from the NASA IDL astronomy library.
>
> You can write your own character replacing routine:
>
> a='1.234 5.678'
> b=byte(a)
> p=where(b eq (byte('.'))[0], count)
> if count gt 0 then b[p]=(byte(','))[0]
> c=string(b)
> print, c
>
> regards,
> Lajos

Thanks for the useful suggestions. I just implemented the last one.

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		Formatted printf output By: Axel Martínez on Tue, 21 June 2011 06:30
		Re: Formatted printf output By: Foldy Lajos on Wed, 22 June 2011 09:13
		Re: Formatted printf output By: Axel Martínez on Mon, 27 June 2011 01:02
		Re: Formatted printf output By: Gray on Wed, 22 June 2011 08:32
		Re: Formatted printf output By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 22 June 2011 07:15

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