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passing strings as arguments? [message #25227]

Mon, 04 June 2001 13:54

noymer
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Registered: June 1999

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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

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		passing strings as arguments? By: noymer on Mon, 04 June 2001 13:54
		Re: passing strings as arguments? By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 05 June 2001 07:37
		Re: passing strings as arguments? By: mperrin+news on Mon, 04 June 2001 14:17
		Re: passing strings as arguments? By: R.Bauer on Thu, 07 June 2001 12:25

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