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Re: Concatenating arrays across chosen dimension [message #31265 is a reply to message #31264]

Tue, 25 June 2002 15:08

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Dick Jackson wrote:
>
> "Randall Skelton" <rhskelto@atm.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0206251749570.28170-100000@mulligan.atm.o x.ac.uk...
>
>> Ok... I have to ask. Is there actually a nice, clean way to concatenate
>> multidimensional arrays in IDL?
>>
>> a = make_array(2,2,2,2)
>> b = make_array(2,2,2,5)
>>
>> data1 = [ [[[a]]] , [[[b]]] ]
>>
>> Obviously the above fails, but what is the solution? Surely some
>> combination of rebin/reform...
>
> Well, I have to say I don't know *why* that one fails, since this works
> fine:
>
> IDL> a = make_array(2,2,2)
> IDL> b = make_array(2,2,5)
> IDL> help, [ [[a]], [[b]] ]
> <Expression> FLOAT = Array[2, 2, 7]
>
> ... and we're a long way from the 8-dimension limit on arrays.

I thought the limit on this was three-dimensions (for whatever reason)? I believe (but
could be wrong) that Craig Markwardt pointed this out a ways back.

paulv

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		Re: Concatenating arrays across chosen dimension By: R.Bauer on Thu, 27 June 2002 00:30
		Re: Concatenating arrays across chosen dimension By: Dick Jackson on Wed, 26 June 2002 13:53
		Re: Concatenating arrays across chosen dimension By: Randall Skelton on Wed, 26 June 2002 06:33
		Re: Concatenating arrays across chosen dimension By: R.Bauer on Wed, 26 June 2002 00:18
		Re: Concatenating arrays across chosen dimension By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 25 June 2002 16:05
		Re: Concatenating arrays across chosen dimension By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 25 June 2002 15:08

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