NAME: cvtsixty PURPOSE: (one line only) General purpose routine for converting between sexigesimal and decimal. DESCRIPTION: This routine encapsulates all of the parsing and conversion routines for handling all conversions between sexigeismal strings and double precision forms of angular coordinates. Floating point is allowed on input but its precision is not really good enough for the taks so any decimal output will always be double precision. Scalar and vector inputs are permitted. A string on input is always an indication that the input is sexigesimal and the information is to be converted to decimal format. If the input is floating point or double then the conversion is to a sexigeismal string. There are a number of specialized conversion routines in the library but they all call this basic routine setting all the required options. A word about the parser: When reading strings, the information is parsed character by character. This routine ignores leading blanks. But, a blank is considered to be a terminating character once the parser has seen a non-blank. Legal field separation characters are ':' and ','. Any and all fields can be floating point though decimal fields only really make sense if that is the last field provided. On output you can modify the separator character to anything you like but this routine will not be able to read arbitrary seperators. Enough options are provided to permit meaningful range checking on the input values for different types of angular quantities. The quantities envisioned for this routine include Right Ascension [0-24h), Declination [-90,90], Hour angle [12W,12E), Longitude [0,360) to name a few. CATEGORY: Astronomy CALLING SEQUENCE: cvtsixty,input,minvalue,maxvalue,wrap,signchar,output INPUTS: input - scalar or vector. String ==> sexigesimal to decimal Double or float ==> decimal to sexigesimal minvalue - scalar, minimum allowed value for coordinate in decimal form. maxvalue - scalar, maximum allowed value for coordinates in decimal form. signchar - two-element string giving the characters to be used to indicate the sign of the number on reading or writing. signchar[0] = Character for positive numbers signchar[1] = Character for negative numbers wrap - Flag, if set indicates the coordinates wrap across from max to min. This further indicates the range is inclusive of minvalue and exclusive of maxvalue. If not set, the range is inclusive of minvalue and maxvalue and an out-of-range is an error. OPTIONAL INPUT PARAMETERS: KEYWORD INPUT PARAMETERS: HOURS - Flag, if set, indicates the sexigesimal string is in units of hours. The default is degrees. DEGREES - Flag, if set, indicates the decimal value is in degrees. The default is radians. Keywords are grouped by the input data type since that dictates the operation that ensues: Double or float input: PLACES - Resolution of output string (default=0) = -8 Pure decimal output XX.xxxxx = -7 nearest top level unit XX = -6 nearest 30 minutes. XX:(00,30) = -5 nearest 15 minutes. XX:(00,15,30,45) = -4 nearest 10 minutes. XX:M0 = -3 nearest 5 minutes. XX:M(0,5) = -2 nearest minute. XX:MM = -1 nearest ten seconds. XX:MM:S0 = 0 nearest second. XX:MM:SS = 1 nearest tenth of a second. XX:MM:SS.s = 2 nearest hundredth of a second. XX:MM:SS.ss = 3 nearest thousandth of a second. XX:MM:SS.sss = 4 nearest 10 thousandth of a second. XX:MM:SS.ssss = 5 nearest 100 thousandth of a second. XX:MM:SS.sssss SEPCHAR - Scalar string of the separator character to use between fields on output. Default=':'. Note that if you set this to something other than ':', ',' or ' ' the output cannot be parsed by this routine as input. OUTPUTS: output - length matches input. Double if input is string, string if input is double or float. KEYWORD OUTPUT PARAMETERS: CARRY - Used on decimal to sexigesimal string conversion only. This is a flag that will incidate if the number rolled over the cut in the coordinate (if a cut exists). ERROR - Flag (length matches input). Set if there was a conversion error. COMMON BLOCKS: SIDE EFFECTS: RESTRICTIONS: PROCEDURE: Examples: Right ascension, radians in decimal form, hours in sexigesimal cvtsixty,'15:43:21.1',0.0d0,2.0d0*!dpi,1,['',''],output,/HOURS Right ascension, degrees in decimal form, hours in sexigesimal cvtsixty,'15:43:21.1',0.0d0,360.0d0,1,['',''],output,/HOURS,/DEGREES Declination, radians in decimal form, degrees in sexigesimal cvtsixty,'-45:28:12',-0.5d0*!dpi,0.5d0*!dpi,0,['+','-'],output Hour angle, radians in decimal form, hours in sexigesimal cvtsixty,'W02:28',-1.0d0*!dpi,1.0d0*!dpi,0,['W','E'],output,/HOURS MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by Marc W. Buie, Southwest Research Institute, 2009/04/24 This is created from a large suite of independent but very similar routines with the intent of removing all duplicate code and having the independent routines call this master routine. 2010/04/18, MWB, modified internal loop variable to handle long input vectors. 2017/04/25, MWB, added PLACES=5