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Re: Why doesn't this work? [message #7833 is a reply to message #7806]

Thu, 09 January 1997 00:00

Tim Abbott
Messages: 4
Registered: January 1997

Junior Member

Oops, as Joe Gurman points out, if all the numbers are 3 digits long
the fix is to use format='(4(1X,I3))'. Unfortunately, the numbers
will not always be 3 digits long...

Tim Abbott wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work?
>
> I need to extract the four numbers from the string "[123:456,246:135]"
>
> Here is the code segment I'm trying to use:
> IDL> str = "[123:456,246:135]"
> IDL> reads,str,x1,x2,x3,x4,format='(4(1X,I0))'
> % Unable to apply format code I to input: "]".
> % Execution halted at: $MAIN$
> IDL> print,x1,x2,x3
> 123.000 246.000 0.00000
> IDL> print,x1,x2,x3,x4
> % PRINT: Variable is undefined: X4.
> % Execution halted at: $MAIN$
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> Timothy M. C. Abbott
> http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/~tmca/tmca.html

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		Re: Why doesn't this work? By: David Foster on Tue, 14 January 1997 00:00
		Re: Why doesn't this work? By: davidf on Mon, 13 January 1997 00:00
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		Re: Why doesn't this work? By: Tim Abbott on Thu, 09 January 1997 00:00
		Re: Why doesn't this work? By: joseph.b.gurman on Thu, 09 January 1997 00:00

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