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Re: How to set elements of arrays as blank (not zero)? [message #38850]

Wed, 31 March 2004 09:03

R.Bauer
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Mathias Brandt wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> After great achievements following a hint from this newsgroup concerning
> array storage in files I am afraid I must bother you with another question:
> How can I set an element of a floating-point array as blank, so that it does
> not appear as 0 (zero) when importing the file (containing the array) into a
> spreadsheet calculation program?
>
> Thank you very much for a good advice.
>
> Mathias
>
>

Dear Matthias,

did you know the idea of missing_values or/and fill_values?

It is better to use a value outside the range of your data. Some people
prefer NaN. !values.f_nan in idl.

Reimar

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