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passing structure elements... by value? [message #25725]

Fri, 13 July 2001 09:03

Randall Skelton
Messages: 169
Registered: October 2000

Senior Member

Hi all,

I am seem to be somewhat confused on passing structure... this *almost*
seems like one of those dreaded 'pass by reference/pass by value'
problems...

I have a simple routine that increments the value of a structure:

pro test, mod_struct
for i=0, n_tags(mod_struct)-1 do begin
mod_struct.(i) = mod_struct.(i) + 1
endfor
end

As expected, this will increment all of the values in a passed structure.

IDL> struct = {A:0, B:0} & big = replicate(struct,3)
IDL> print, big
{ 0 0}{ 0 0}{ 0 0}
IDL> test, big
IDL> print, big
{ 1 1}{ 1 1}{ 1 1}

But, when I try and increment a single element in the structure it fails?

IDL> struct = {A:0, B:0} & big = replicate(struct,3)
IDL> test, big[0]
IDL> print, big
{ 0 0}{ 0 0}{ 0 0}
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I expected the ^^ element above to be ones? Is there any way to force IDL
to pass this by reference instead of passing by value? It would be nice if
you could put brackets around the thing you want to pass by reference...
something like '(big[0])'

Have a good weekend all!
Randall

PS: I'm sure Liam's new book answers this...

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[Message index]

		passing structure elements... by value? By: Randall Skelton on Fri, 13 July 2001 09:03
		Re: passing structure elements... by value? By: Vince Hradil on Tue, 17 July 2001 08:54
		Re: passing structure elements... by value? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Mon, 16 July 2001 02:45
		Re: passing structure elements... by value? By: david[2] on Fri, 13 July 2001 09:53
		Re: passing structure elements... by value? By: Liam E. Gumley on Fri, 13 July 2001 09:39

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