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Re: casting error [message #69882]

Tue, 02 March 2010 04:15

Wout De Nolf
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Registered: October 2008

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On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 03:56:48 -0800 (PST), a
<oxfordenergyservices@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have an error which comes quite infrequently, but it doesn't stop
> the program...it is a casting error, but I don't know how to fix
> without the program stopping for me. any ideas?
>
> warning below
>
> % Type conversion error: Unable to convert given STRING to Float.
>
> Thanks
>
> Russ

This happens when doing e.g.
IDL> print,float('test')

To find out where this happens, set except to 2:
!EXCEPT=2

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