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Text output line too short, width = val not working [message #91105]

Wed, 03 June 2015 17:21

laura.hike
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Registered: September 2013

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Hi,

I'm writing an ascii file of data and some of the numbers are wrapping to a second line. On a couple of web pages, I find a suggested solution of adding width = somevalue to the end of my openw statement. I tried several different values, all the way up to 400, and found no change in my output. Any idea why this is? The relevant code and output lines are below. Interestingly, the header line (just text) prints out fine regardless of whether I use a width parameter.

Code lines:

openw, 4, outname + '.txt', width = 400
printf, 4, ' Date DOY Time SZA Lat. Lon. Mask Type CF Height Pressure Temp Tau LWP r_e R_650 R_3.75 T_650 T_3.75'
printf, 4, format = '(I4, 1X, 2(I3, 1X), I4, 1X, (A4, 1X), 2(F7.2, 1X), F7.2, 1X, 2(I4, 1X), F8.3, 1X, F8.3, 1X, F6.1, 1X, F6.1, 1X, F7.2, 1X, F7.2, 1X, F6.1, 2(1X, F7.2))', year, month, day, doy, time, outdata

Example lines:

Date DOY Time SZA Lat. Lon. Mask Type CF Height Pressure Temp Tau LWP r_e R_650 R_3.75 T_650 T_3.75

2015 2 3 34 2345 -999.00 -999.00 -999.00 -999 -999 -999.000 -999.000 -999.0 -999.0 -999.00 -999.00 -999.0 -999.00 -999.00
-999.00 -999.00

2015 2 4 35 0015 38.54 -121.39 77.95 3 7 0.996 10.000 277.2 224.6 -999.00 -999.00 -999.0 26.75 27.24
282.35 268.82

(If you can't see that properly in this window, only the last two numbers in each of the data "lines" is on a new line.) The crazy format statement comes from me trying to make the line as short as possible.

Thanks,

Laura

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		Text output line too short, width = val not working By: laura.hike on Wed, 03 June 2015 17:21
		Re: Text output line too short, width = val not working By: vaibhavpant55 on Thu, 04 June 2015 02:02
		Re: Text output line too short, width = val not working By: David Fanning on Thu, 04 June 2015 07:11
		Re: Text output line too short, width = val not working By: laura.hike on Thu, 04 June 2015 12:07
		Re: Text output line too short, width = val not working By: Dick Jackson on Thu, 04 June 2015 12:46
		Re: Text output line too short, width = val not working By: laura.hike on Thu, 04 June 2015 13:12
		Re: Text output line too short, width = val not working By: laura.hike on Thu, 04 June 2015 13:18

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