Re: printing floats/integer

[Reimar Bauer <r.bauer(at)fz-juelich.de>]

Sean Heukels wrote:
> 
> 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


We have a tool in our library which may be the one you are looking for:

http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl_html/dbase/download/number_format.tar.gz

Or take this routine to find the format which was used:

http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl_html/dbase/download/find_form.tar.gz

For further routines and licensing please look at
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.html


regards
Reimar

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