Re: Simple number formatting problem

[Paul van Delst <pvandelst(at)ncep.noaa.gov>]

Craig Markwardt wrote:
> 
> "Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz> writes:
> 
> > "Luis Alonso" <luis.alonso@uv.es> wrote in message
> > 8mbrv6$ra0$1@peque.uv.es">news:8mbrv6$ra0$1@peque.uv.es...
> > > > p.s. F95 has a new formatting option, i0, which would print out 1 as
> > > > "1", 10 as "10" etc. i.e. the leading blanks removed. Maybe this should
> > > > go on a future IDL feature request list....? :o)
> > >
> > > strtrim do remove leading blanks. and it would not be longer to write than
> > > the Format thing.
> >
> >  Yes, but removal of leading blanks via a format code would be handy for use
> > with TICKFORMAT.
> 
> Not sure what you folks are arguing about.  IDL has had the I0 format
> code for as long as I've known, and does exactly what you want!
> 
> Craig
> 
> Example:
> IDL> print, 1, format='("<",I0,">")'
> <1>
> IDL> print, 10, format='("<",I0,">")'
> <10>


Aww, crap. Thanks for pointing this out. RTFM shure helps. <insert
embarrassed grin right here>

paulv
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