Re: printing floats/integer

["Klaus Scipal" <kscipal(at)ipf.tuwien.ac.at>]

you can use the the string command in connection with format

for example
IDL> x=1.222221000000000000000
IDL> print, string(format='(f8.6)',x)
 1.222221

klaus

Sean Heukels <sean77=cuthere=@dds.nl> wrote in message
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> I wrote a small module for integers. The variable is formatted and
returned.
>
> "1         " returns as "1"
>
> Now this doesn't work with floats. for example if I want to print
"1.22221"
> I
> dont want to see it as "1.222221000000000000000" or
> "1.222222                  "
>
> Does anyone know how I can solve this ??
>
> Greets Sean
>
>