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[fitsbits] Start of the CONTINUE keyword Public Comment Period
perhaps it would be useful to explicitly mention that the & character is
not part of the resulting keyword value. And also make the example shorter so you can easily show the equivalent string in a single-keyword example: i.e. SVALUE = 'This is a long string value &' CONTINUE 'extending& ' CONTINUE ' over 3 lines.' is the same as SVALUE = 'This is a long string value extending over 3 lines.' and also thus showing anything after the & does not count. A reminder is thus in place how the & can be made part of the SVALUE string. && ?? On [Wed Jul 11 16:14], William Pence wrote: This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the CONTINUE keyword convention that has been submitted for inclusion in the 'Registry of FITS Conventions' which is maintained by the IAU FITS Working Group. This is the 9th in a growing series of conventions submitted for inclusion in the Registry. Detailed information about this convention and a sample FITS file that uses it are available for public review and comment from the FITS registry web page at http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_registry.html The CONTINUE keyword allows long character string keyword values to be continued on the next keyword(s) in the FITS header. This convention supports string keyword values that are longer than the 68-character maximum that can be represented in a single FITS keyword. A trivial example of this convention is shown below: SVALUE = 'This is a long string value that is &' / Any comments CONTINUE 'continued over three keywords& ' / may be appended CONTINUE ' in the FITS header.' / after the quoted value. Under this convention, the last character of each string that is to be continued must be the `&' character, and the continuation string is contained in a sequence of 1 or more CONTINUE keywords (which do not have a `=' character in column 9 and hence have no formal value). Comments may be posted here on the FITSBITS mail exploder or the sci.astro.fits newsgroup. Minor typographical issues may be sent directly to the authors of the convention. Bill Pence (on behalf of the IAU FITS Working Group) -- __________________________________________________ __________________ Dr. William Pence NASA/GSFC Code 662 HEASARC +1-301-286-4599 (voice) Greenbelt MD 20771 +1-301-286-1684 (fax) _______________________________________________ fitsbits mailing list http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/fitsbits |
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