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Re: IDL string trim [message #61138]

Mon, 07 July 2008 07:43

mchinand
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In article <MPG.22daffe956a87f7598a3cb@news.frii.com>,
David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> wrote:
> RussellGrew writes:
>
>> This may not be the most elegant solution, but you can look at the
>> size of k and add an extra zero to the string manually.
>>
>> eg for the variable 'tmp' being slotted into the filename,
>>
>> if k lt 10. then tmp = '0' + strtrim(string(k), 2) else k =
>> strtrim(string(k), 2)
>>
>> I shall sit here and wait to be shot down by a more elegant solution.
>
> I think this might be the elegant solution you are looking for:
>
> strVal = String(k, Format='(i2.2)')
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

I usually use:

String(k, format='(I02)')

which seems a little more intuitive (the zero indicating to zero-pad the string) but produces the same results as David's.

--Mike

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Michael Chinander
m-chinander@uchicago.edu
Department of Radiology
University of Chicago

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		Re: IDL string trim By: mchinand on Mon, 07 July 2008 07:43
		Re: IDL string trim By: russell.grew on Sun, 06 July 2008 17:00
		Re: IDL string trim By: David Fanning on Sun, 06 July 2008 16:15
		Re: IDL string trim By: russell.grew on Sun, 06 July 2008 15:44
		Re: IDL string trim By: russell.grew on Sun, 06 July 2008 15:42
		Re: IDL string trim By: raghuram on Tue, 08 July 2008 21:37

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