Hi Kare:
PDL 2.4.2 (which is all I've got installed right now) gives a correct 5
character wide field for me.
--Doug
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UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, K?reEdvardsen wrote:
Hi all,
Why does the output end up 2 character wider than specified by the
format code?
wcols "%5d", $year, 'test.dat'
gives a 7 character field width instead of a width of 5 characters.
Kare
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