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Re: unformatted strings (reading) [message #5704]

Wed, 07 February 1996 00:00

David Foster
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Registered: January 1996

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immel@gi.alaska.edu (Thomas Immel) wrote:
>
>
> Here's a question for anyone who reads unformatted strings.
> Is there a way to read a whole ,say 10 character, string at once
> in IDL? Here's what is happening to me.
>
>
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> Thomas Immel
> Immel@geewiz.gi.alaska.edu
>

If you know the length of the string you want to read, you can
always do something like:

openw, 5, 'test'
writeu, 5, 'Whatever'
free_lun, 5
openr, 5, 'test'
s = string( replicate(32B, 8) ) ; String of 8 spaces
readu, 5, s
free_lun, 5
print, s
Whatever

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		Re: unformatted strings (reading) By: David Foster on Wed, 07 February 1996 00:00
		Re: unformatted strings (reading) By: immel on Sun, 04 February 1996 00:00
		Re: unformatted strings (reading) By: Jackel on Sat, 03 February 1996 00:00
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