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Re: Adding two strings together [message #92324 is a reply to message #92322]

Tue, 17 November 2015 19:01

wlandsman
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I suspect you have spaces in front of your variable1. Try setting

variable1 = strtrim(variable1,2)

before your concatenation. --Wayne

On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 9:36:30 PM UTC-5, Wayana Dolan wrote:
> So I'm having a devil of a time with something that should be easy.
>
> So I want the end product to look like 'Run07656_Seq0001_Scan012', for every scan in a file I have
> So I put the following in a loop for all of the scans
> x='Run0'+string(variable1)+'_Seq0001_Scan'+string(variable2)
> where variable 1 is the run (ex. 7657), and variable 2 is the scan (ex. 012).
>
> But for some reason they all print out like 'Run0 7656_Seq0001_Scan012'
>
>
> How so I make it so there is no space between the 0 and the 7?
>
> Please help!

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		Adding two strings together By: wdolan on Tue, 17 November 2015 18:36
		Re: Adding two strings together By: wlandsman on Tue, 17 November 2015 19:01
		Re: Adding two strings together By: Jim Pendleton on Tue, 17 November 2015 19:05
		modern syntax By: greg.addr on Wed, 18 November 2015 03:47
		Re: modern syntax By: Fabzi on Wed, 18 November 2015 04:06

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