Re: Convert Integer to Text

["Emmler, Oliver" <oemmler(at)ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>]

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Great, thanx to all.

Marks hit works fine.

Special Thanx to Mark

Oliver

"Martin Schultz" <martin.schultz@dkrz.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Dan Blair <vze2p88d@verizon.net> writes:
>
> > Mark Hadfield wrote:
> >
> > > From: ""Mark Hadfield"" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz>
> > >
> > > > You can add the prefix and suffix via the "+" operator like
> > > > this...
> > > >
> > > >     name = 'MC'+string(index,format='(I3.3)')+'.dcm'
> > > >
> > > > or within the format specifier like this...
> > > >
> > > >     name = string(index,format='("MC",I3.3,".dcm"')'
> > >
> > > Of course you can also use printf-style format codes (new to
> > > IDL 5.4) like this
> > >
> > >     name = string(index,format='(%"MC%3.3d.dcm")')
> > >
> > > I suppose there must be somebody out there who actually *uses*
> > > this stuff?
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Mark Hadfield
>
> > A freind of mine wrote  a nice thing for just this application.
> > It's a function called
> > padnumstring.pro
> >
> > here it is
> > [...]
> > repeat begin
> >  if strlen(numstring) lt length then numstring='0'+numstring
> >  endrep until strlen(numstring) eq length
>
> Not to blame you or your friend, but Mark's solution using the
> format qualifier is far superior and faster, too. You shouldn't use
> a loop in IDL when you can avoid it as easily as here.
>
> Martin
>
>
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