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Re: number format in structure [message #45662]

Mon, 26 September 2005 11:34

R.G. Stockwell
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Registered: July 1999

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<kl_tah@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1127758210.699607.161150@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com.. .
> Hi Paolo,
>
> Thanks for the tip. It works for positive numbers. Do you happen to
> know how to get it to work for negative numbers?
> I get:
>
> IDL> help,a
> A FLOAT = -4.35660
> IDL> print,string(a)
> -4.35660
> IDL> print,string(a,format='(4.2)')
> ****

you need to specify enough "digits" (you also forget an 'f' in your format).

try
print,string(-4.35660,format='(f5.2)')
-4.36

Note that there are 5 characters in the printout, including the negative
sign and the decimal.

Cheers,
bob

PS the **** indicates that the number does not fit into the defined format
statement.
The answer is usually to make the format bigger.

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[Message index]

		Re: number format in structure By: R.G. Stockwell on Mon, 26 September 2005 11:34
		Re: number format in structure By: Koh Leong Tah on Mon, 26 September 2005 11:10
		Re: number format in structure By: Paolo Grigis on Mon, 26 September 2005 05:04
		Re: number format in structure By: peter.albert@gmx.de on Mon, 26 September 2005 03:07
		Re: number format in structure By: Koh Leong Tah on Sun, 25 September 2005 22:06
		Re: number format in structure By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 25 September 2005 19:51
		Re: number format in structure By: David Fanning on Sun, 25 September 2005 19:01

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