| Re: ERROR: % Ambiguous keyword abbreviation: KEY [message #16143 is a reply to message #16141] |
Fri, 02 July 1999 00:00  |
Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997
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gabriel rodriguez ibeas wrote:
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> I have gotten a
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> % Ambiguous keyword abbreviation: KEY
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> error if I make define a procedure like:
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> PRO ProcedureName, ..., KEYWORD=KEYWORD, ..., KEY=KEY, ....
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> and then called it with:
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> ProcedureName, KEYWORD=KEY.
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> David Fanning has a program, COLORBAR which also produces the error if
> used, for example:
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> COLORBAR, DIV=5, MAX=10,MIN=0, FORMAT='(F5.2)'
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> I'm using IDL 5.2 for WIN32, in an NT machine.
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> Has anyone had the same problem?. Is it a bug? (By default, I think
> IDL should check if there exists a keyword whose full name is the one we
> are using in the call, and search for abbreviatons afterwords.)
Well, that's just not the way IDL works! If you rename your KEY keyword
to KEY2 for example, then KEYWORD=KEY would be recognized correctly.
However, KEY=nnn would still be ambiguous.
This topic might almost be worth a David Fanning article or at least an
FAQ entry ;-)
Martin
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