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Re: Problems with scalar structures [message #11799]

Tue, 26 May 1998 00:00

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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Brian Jackel <jackel@danlon.physics.uwo.ca> writes:
>
> Can anyone suggest a (simple, elegant) way to deal with
> the generic command
>
> test.x= test.x * a
>
> where "test.x" and "a" are arrays of length N, and N is
> sometimes equal to 1?

I use the following, and it seems to work fine:

test(*).x = test(*).x * a

It works under both IDL 4 and 5. By the way, I think even "scalar"
structures are actually vectors of length one, so this notation should
always work.

Craig

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