Re: Formatting output

[davidf(at)dfanning.com (David Fanning)]

Guillaume Dargaud (dargaud@sung3.ifsi.rm.cnr.it) writes:

> OK, thanks to your replies, I managed to do what I wanted:
> FOR i=0, OrbNum DO xtn[i]=STRING( $
>     OrbArra[i,0], OrbArra[i,12], OrbArray[i,13], $
>     FORMAT='(I0, "-", I0, "h", I2.2)' )
> 
> Which outputs something like "1234-14h30"
> 
> Now I'd like to have this result on 2 lines (instead of a '-' separator).
> So I tried FORMAT='(I0, /, I0, "h", I2.2)'
> But I get "Out of range subscript encountered: XTN"
> 
> Any idea ?

If you are using this string for something like
an axis or plot title, you might try "!C" in
place of your "/".

Cheers,

David

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