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| Re: Referencing various variables through string( )? [message #47799 is a reply to message #47797] |
Tue, 07 March 2006 09:18  |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
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Registered: April 2002
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David Fanning wrote:
> Daelomin writes:
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>> The reason why I didnt store values in a bigger array
>> (tcwv=fltarr(7,NPoints) for example) is that when I assign a column to
>> a variable, I always get a variable of size (1,Npoints) instead of
>> Npoints... There must be a function to drop the "useless" reference to
>> a 1D array in 2 variables, I just dont know it...
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> col = Reform(tcwv[4,*])
Alternatively you can construct your monster array like so:
tcwv=fltarr(NPoints,7)
and let IDL do the (usually) superflous dimension removal for you (much to the
consternation of some c.l.i-p readers I believe).
paulv
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Paul van Delst
CIMSS @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC
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| Re: Referencing various variables through string( )? [message #47801 is a reply to message #47799] |
Tue, 07 March 2006 09:01 |
David Fanning
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Daelomin writes:
> The reason why I didnt store values in a bigger array
> (tcwv=fltarr(7,NPoints) for example) is that when I assign a column to
> a variable, I always get a variable of size (1,Npoints) instead of
> Npoints... There must be a function to drop the "useless" reference to
> a 1D array in 2 variables, I just dont know it...
col = Reform(tcwv[4,*])
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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