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sdxGetv Function
Description
Returns a numeric value extracted from an XML input string.Syntax
sdxGetv(tagname,valuex)
tagname String XML Tag name to be extracted.
Case sensitive.
valuex String value containing XML tags and
values.
Return Values
sdxGetv returns a double precision number value.If tagname is empty (i.e. equal to "") then the
function returns the numeric value of valuex up until the first non-numeric
character.
Otherwise,
If "<tagname> n </tagname>" is found in
the valuex string then n is returned,
Otherwise,
0 is returned.
Remarks
Click here to see an XML-Tag - function cross reference.
Example
To find the year value of MJD 34032:
sdxGetv("Year",sdxTimeUnpackx("<MJD>34032</MJD>"))
equals 1952
What is the default value returned by the sdMJDx function for
12 noon UT, 1st September, 2003:
sdxGetv("",sdMJDx(2003,9,1,12,0,0,0))
equals 52883.5