On 04/25/2017 01:34 PM, Anne Archibald wrote:
I know they're not numpy-compatible, but FITS header values are
space-padded; does that occur elsewhere?
Strings in FITS headers are delimited by single quotes. Some keywords
(only a handful) are required to have values that are blank-padded (in
On 04/20/2017 03:17 PM, Anne Archibald wrote:
Actually if I understood the spec, FITS header lines are 80 bytes long
and contain ASCII with no NULLs; strings are quoted and trailing
spaces are stripped.
FITS BINTABLE extensions can have columns containing strings, and in
that case the value
