| Re: handling numbers [message #33177] |
Fri, 13 December 2002 09:30  |
Richard Adams
Messages: 9
Registered: January 2000
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> Hi!
> I am stuck on a problem, probably it is very easy, but I don't know the
> solutions!
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> I have a list of number in this form:
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> 000237.9
> 000246.3
> 000257.0
> ........
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> and I would like to write them in this form:
> 00 02 37.9
> 00 02 46.3
> 00 02 57.0
>
> Is there any command that can do this?
> Thank you very much!
> Steve
a = '000235.8'
print, (STREGEX(a, '(..)(..)(....)', /SUBEXPR, /extract))[1:*]
00 02 35.8
This does something like that.
Cheers, Richard.
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| Re: handling numbers [message #33254 is a reply to message #33177] |
Fri, 13 December 2002 14:39  |
wmconnolley
Messages: 106
Registered: November 2000
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Richard Adams <rja46@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 000237.9
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>> and I would like to write them in this form:
>> 00 02 37.9
> a = '000235.8'
> print, (STREGEX(a, '(..)(..)(....)', /SUBEXPR, /extract))[1:*]
> 00 02 35.8
In other words, use perl...
-W.
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