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Re: extracting numbers [message #48026]

Thu, 23 March 2006 08:06

Norbert Hahn
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Registered: May 2003

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kl_tah@hotmail.com wrote:

> Hi, does anyone happen to know how to extract a sequence of numbers
> (including the sign) between two characters? for eg. I have
>
> AAAA = -23.445 /BBBBB
> and could like to extract the number between '=' and '/'
>
> cheers,

Depending on the positions in the string you may as well _read_ from a
string using the procedure reads:

buffer = "AAAA = -23.445 /BBBBB"
reads, buffer, z, format='(6x,f8.3)'
help, z
Z FLOAT = -23.4450

HTH
Norbert

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		Re: extracting numbers By: Norbert Hahn on Thu, 23 March 2006 08:06
		Re: extracting numbers By: Ken Mankoff on Thu, 23 March 2006 06:34
		Re: extracting numbers By: Klaus Scipal on Wed, 22 March 2006 23:43

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