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Re: Appending Numbers to Strings in IDL [message #48976]

Tue, 06 June 2006 10:08

Jo Klein
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Registered: January 2006

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> But, that leaves a lot of whitespace in front of the number. Is there
> a way to eliminate this whitespace?

Hi Branch,
You can specify a FORMAT keyword to STRING to get the numbers prettily
formatted. If you just want integers without whitespace, try
string(variable,FORMAT='(I0)')
This is a very flexible approach - with FORMAT, you could also specify
the precision of floating point numbers and the like.

Jo

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		Re: Appending Numbers to Strings in IDL By: Jo Klein on Tue, 06 June 2006 10:08
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