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Re: my god, it's full of stars.... [message #77213]

Wed, 17 August 2011 05:05

Paul Van Delst[1]
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If I don't know what the size of the numbers will be (or if their range is many orders of magnitude), I use exponential
formats, e.g. e13.6.

cheers,

paulv

polystethylene wrote:
> On Aug 16, 10:29 pm, Paul van Delst <paul.vande...@noaa.gov> wrote:
>> The format used to output the number can't "fit it in". E.g.
>>
>> IDL> x=0.631398
>> IDL> print, format='(f10.6)', x
>> 0.631398
>> IDL> x=1000.0
>> IDL> print, format='(f10.6)', x
>> **********
>>
>> So, if the number being output in your file is >= 1000, you'll get stars.
>>
>> The ">=" is subject to precision of course:
>>
>> IDL> x=999.9999
>> IDL> print, format='(f10.6)', x
>> 999.999878
>> IDL> x=999.99999
>> IDL> print, format='(f10.6)', x
>> **********
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> paulv
>>
>>
>
>
> Hi Paul, thanks for the swift reply.
>
> Does this mean the solution for situations where the number is unknown
> is to print with format D0.6, and not D10.6?
>
>

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		Re: my god, it's full of stars.... By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 17 August 2011 05:05
		Re: my god, it's full of stars.... By: polystethylene on Tue, 16 August 2011 16:34
		Re: my god, it's full of stars.... By: David Fanning on Tue, 16 August 2011 14:58
		Re: my god, it's full of stars.... By: polystethylene on Tue, 16 August 2011 14:42
		Re: my god, it's full of stars.... By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 16 August 2011 14:29
		Re: my god, it's full of stars.... By: polystethylene on Tue, 30 August 2011 07:09

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