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Re: passing strings as arguments? [message #25226 is a reply to message #25225]

Mon, 04 June 2001 14:13

mchinand
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In article <yx6h3d9gufti.fsf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>,
<noymer@socrates.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> I am using Ronn Kling's PLOTSYM, the usage of which is:
>
> plot,x,y,psym=plotsym(/circle,scale=2,/fill)
>
> instead of /circle, one could use /box, /triangle, etc...
>
> I have something like:
>
> IF (condition) THEN myshape=string('/circle') ELSE
> myshape=string('/triangle')
> ENDIF
>
> and I want to pass the string "myshape" to plotsym as the
> first argument but I can't figure out how to do this in IDL 5.3.
>
> It seems not to like strings being passed there.
>
> TIA,
> Andrew

You could use the EXECUTE function. Something like

result=EXECUTE('plot,x,y,psym=plotsym('+myshape+',scale=2,/f ill)')

Hope that helps,

--Mike
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		Re: passing strings as arguments? By: ronn on Mon, 04 June 2001 14:17
		Re: passing strings as arguments? By: mchinand on Mon, 04 June 2001 14:13
		Re: passing strings as arguments? By: R.Bauer on Mon, 04 June 2001 23:41
		Re: passing strings as arguments? By: R.Bauer on Mon, 04 June 2001 23:39

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