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Re: changing a datatype in a structure [message #48642]

Thu, 11 May 2006 13:18

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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Kenneth Bowman wrote:
> You cannot change the type of a variable inside a structure, but you can add a
> new variable to an existing (anonymous) structure.
>
> IDL> data = {i : LINDGEN(5)}
> IDL> help, data, /str
> ** Structure <215d270>, 1 tags, length=20, data length=20, refs=1:
> I LONG Array[5]
> IDL> data = CREATE_STRUCT(data, 'x', FLOAT(data.i))
> IDL> help, data, /str
> ** Structure <215d330>, 2 tags, length=40, data length=40, refs=1:
> I LONG Array[5]
> X FLOAT Array[5]
> IDL> print, data
> { 0 1 2 3 4
> 0.00000 1.00000 2.00000 3.00000 4.00000
> }

Yes, but what you've actually done is destroy the old one and create a
new one, as the different ID numbers above attest. The difference
doesn't generally matter for structures with small amounts of data but
it certainly can for large ones.

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Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		Re: changing a datatype in a structure By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 11 May 2006 13:18
		Re: changing a datatype in a structure By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 11 May 2006 13:17
		Re: changing a datatype in a structure By: K. Bowman on Thu, 11 May 2006 06:16
		Re: changing a datatype in a structure By: rchughes on Thu, 11 May 2006 06:17
		Re: changing a datatype in a structure By: R.Bauer on Wed, 10 May 2006 22:02
		Re: changing a datatype in a structure By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 10 May 2006 18:30

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