| Re: Name of Routine Escapes Me [message #36434] |
Thu, 18 September 2003 13:35 |
R.G. Stockwell
Messages: 363
Registered: July 1999
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"David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.19d3bd7cbbf663d19896f1@news.frii.com...
> Folks,
>
> Oh, oh. Now in addition to forgetting people's names
> (even those I have known for years), I am forgetting
> the names of IDL routines. :-(
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> There is a routine (I've seen it discussed here, in
> fact, I swore I would write an article about it so I
> could find it on my web page) that works like this.
> Given an array of values, and a target value, it tells
> you which index in the array (gosh, I even wrote a program
> using this, but which one!!!) contains a value closest to
> the target value.
I called mine WHERE_CLOSEST.
:)
-bob
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| Re: Name of Routine Escapes Me [message #36435 is a reply to message #36434] |
Thu, 18 September 2003 13:27  |
K. Bowman
Messages: 330
Registered: May 2000
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In article <MPG.19d3bed9c874bbf49896f2@news.frii.com>,
David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> wrote:
> David Fanning writes:
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>> Anyone younger have a clue as to what this routine was
>> called? You will be forever in my debt. :-)
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> Oh, never mind. Just hitting the send key was enough
> to call it to mind, embarrassingly enough: VALUE_LOCATE.
VALUE_LOCATE gets my nomination for hardest IDL routine name to
remember. I suppose I should make a wrapper called SEARCH. ;-)
Ken Bowman
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| Re: Name of Routine Escapes Me [message #36436 is a reply to message #36435] |
Thu, 18 September 2003 13:09 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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David Fanning writes:
> Anyone younger have a clue as to what this routine was
> called? You will be forever in my debt. :-)
Oh, never mind. Just hitting the send key was enough
to call it to mind, embarrassingly enough: VALUE_LOCATE.
Cheers,
David
P.S. Let's just say there are times when it's not about
programming prowess. It's about something... well..., else. :-(
--
David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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