[fitsbits] ASCII tables, TFORM and recommended practice

Phil Hodge hodge at stsci.edu
Tue Apr 22 10:05:04 EDT 2003


Tom McGlynn wrote:

> My question is basically what do others think on this issue?

Use an explicit decimal point in the data, and give the actual print
format as the TFORMn value, e.g. F7.3 in your example.  In my opinion,
the situation is clearest when the two are consistent.

Phil




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