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Re: Formatting strings to coordinates [message #20138]

Fri, 19 May 2000 00:00

Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997

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Simon de Vet wrote:
>
> The data analysis adventure continues... I have read in the data, and am
> now working on the various plots.
>
> I have a string array, taken from the text file, of coordinates.
> However, they are in the form "43.92ï¿½S" ,and "176.50ï¿½W".

Off the top of my head, I can think of two ways:

1) The STR_SEP method where the degree symbol, ï¿½, is the separator. The
first element of the result is then just the number in string form. By
using FLOAT, you'll have a real number. (However, I don't know how to
represent the symbol ï¿½ in the command....ASCII escape sequence or
something like that?)

2) Lopping off the last two characters manually, e.g.:

c_lat = "43.92ï¿½S"
len = STRLEN( STRTRIM( c_lat, 2 ) ) ; Make sure there are no " " at
the end
c_lat = STRMID( c_lat, 0, len - 2 )
lat = FLOAT( c_lat )

I do this sort of thing all the time reading in radiosonde data

good luck

paulv
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