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Re: Assigning structure tag names from variables? [message #42998]

Mon, 14 March 2005 11:52

Benjamin Hornberger is currently offline

Benjamin Hornberger
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Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> Is there any way to use a variable as the name of a structure tag?

How about the function CREATE_STRUCT()?

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Re: Assigning structure tag names from variables? [message #42999 is a reply to message #42998]

Mon, 14 March 2005 11:51

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> Is there any way to use a variable as the name of a structure tag? For
> instance:
>
> tagnamevar='mytagname'
> somedata=1.2
> structurename={tagnamevar:somedata}
> print,tag_names(structurename)
>
> Returns, as you IDL'ers know,
> TAGNAMEVAR and not MYTAGNAME

You can specify a structure name via a variable using the CREATE_STRUCT() function, but I
don't know how you'd use automatic structure definitions though (you'd still need a
routine mytagname__define). Maybe using the EXECUTE function?

paulv

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Re: Assigning structure tag names from variables? [message #43147 is a reply to message #42998]

Mon, 14 March 2005 11:59

Jonathan Greenberg
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Registered: November 2002

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What the hell would I do without this mailing list? Probably spend 3 days
bonking my head against a wall... Thanks again, guys!

--j

On 3/14/05 11:52 AM, in article 4235eb7c$1_2@marge.ic.sunysb.edu, "Benjamin
Hornberger" <benjamin.hornberger@stonybrook.edu> wrote:

> Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
>> Is there any way to use a variable as the name of a structure tag?
>
> How about the function CREATE_STRUCT()?

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