Luhua,
>>1. I would like to display the number as 0.65 instead of .65. How should
I do it using syntax?
I'm not sure how to do this directly using a numeric format. Perhaps
somebody else knows. I do think it is possible if you convert the number to
a string and pad the left most blanks with 0's. That, however, is a lot of
work for no particular gain--so far as I can see.
>>2. I am writing my data to an external txt file using "write outfile="
.txt" records=4...". For example, when a F8.2 numeric variable is written
to an external file I got
" 99.99", but what I need is "99.99". How can I remove these blank
spaces?
Change your format from F8.2 to F5.2. However, if there can be a value of
999.99, for instance, a F5.2 format will screw things up.
Gene Maguin
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