Mary,
Thank you. It works beautifully.
Sang-ki
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Sang-ki Lee wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying put an array of text strings on a xy-plot by using
>> "gsn_add_text". My text array should look like "87", "89", "01",
>> "06". But, since the my text array is integer (or real) number,
>> they appears like "87", "89", "1" "2" on the plot. How can I convert
>> my data into character array?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Sang-ki
>
> Hi Sang-ki,
>
> You can use the "sprinti" function to format your integers and to
> force a leading "0". To get "01" try this:
>
> i = 1
> s = sprinti("%0.2i",i)
>
> For more examples, see the "Examples" section at:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/sprinti.shtml
>
> You could also do something completely different:
>
> if (i.lt.10) then
> s = "0" + i
> else
> s = "" + i
> end if
>
> This is a bit kludgy, however, and I wouldn't recommend using
> it in a "do" loop. I included the above so you can see the
> sneaky method of quickly converting an integer to a string with:
>
> s = "" + i
>
> --Mary
>
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