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Re: IDL refuse to acknowledge anything but integers... [message #86544 is a reply to message #86543]

Mon, 18 November 2013 07:16

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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sara.magrin@gmail.com writes:

>
> Hi all,
> I have the same problem.
>
> I quit IDLDE and tried again.
> Both with IDLDE and command line I find everything correct at the beginning:
>
> IDL> PRINT,FLOAT('2.41e12'),' 2.41e12'
> 2.41000e+012 2.41e12
>
> but after the dialog_pickfile() it changes from floating-point to "floating-comma"
>
> IDL> files=DIALOG_PICKFILE()
> IDL> PRINT,FLOAT('2.43e12'),' 2.43e12'
> 2,00000 2.43e12
>
> How can I fix it?
> Is there a system variable to set for the floating-POINT?
>
> Anyway no problem if I call DIALOG_PICKFILE(/directory), instead.

Weird. Somehow a different language pack must be getting set. Does this
article give you any ideas?

http://www.idlcoyote.com/workbench/languages.html

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: IDL refuse to acknowledge anything but integers... By: Lajos Foldy on Tue, 27 March 2012 08:26
		Re: IDL refuse to acknowledge anything but integers... By: David Fanning on Tue, 27 March 2012 08:07
		Re: IDL refuse to acknowledge anything but integers... By: sara.magrin on Mon, 18 November 2013 07:07
		Re: IDL refuse to acknowledge anything but integers... By: David Fanning on Mon, 18 November 2013 07:16
		Re: IDL refuse to acknowledge anything but integers... By: sara.magrin on Mon, 18 November 2013 07:48
		Re: IDL refuse to acknowledge anything but integers... By: sara.magrin on Tue, 19 November 2013 05:26

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