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Old July 11th 07, 10:37 PM posted to sci.astro.fits
Peter Teuben
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Default [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)
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