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Re: How to convert (concatenate) a string array to a string scalar? [message #19276]

Mon, 13 March 2000 00:00

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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Kristian Kjaer wrote:
>
> Given
> numarray= ;, say, I wan't
> strscalar='1342,1347,1355' ;, but
> help,string(numarray)
> gives: STRING = Array
> and
> help,total(string(numarray))
> gives an error.
>
> How to convert (concatenate) a string array to a string scalar?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Kristian Kjï¿½r.

Try:

help,string(numarray,format='(3A)')
(no loop ;-)

Cheers,
Martin

PS: In case you don't know the array dimension exactly, the format
method also
works:
help,string(numarray,format='(9999A)')
But don't go beyond 32767!

And here is another (academic) solution:
help,string(reform(byte(string(numarray)),24))

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		Re: How to convert (concatenate) a string array to a string scalar? By: Martin Schultz on Mon, 13 March 2000 00:00
		Re: How to convert (concatenate) a string array to a string scalar? By: davidf on Mon, 13 March 2000 00:00
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		Re: How to convert (concatenate) a string array to a string scalar? By: Carsten Dominik on Mon, 13 March 2000 00:00

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