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Re: Maddening structures [message #50220 is a reply to message #50219]

Mon, 18 September 2006 06:54

Edd Edmondson
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Edd <eddedmondson@hotmail.com> wrote:

> That's where I was looking too. I wasn't sure how to handle the
> structure creation neatly though. Once you have the tag names you can
> loop over them in a for loop (there won't be that many tags anyway) so
> it's not too bad. Just a bit hairy. It'd be nice if there was a
> reform-alike. :-)

Saying it's not too bad is an exaggeration. All this is happening
inside an execute(), so I'm entering it in one set of ''s. I need to
put it all in another execute() inside that to make it
on-the-fly-enough, which uses up a "" inside the '', leaving me using
STRING(39B) to get a third tier. I've managed to build up a string
that looks like

'mystructure=create_struct('foo',0.1,'bar',1242999,'baz',som estring)'
which means I get my float in foo, my long in bar, but baz complains
because the string is coming out without the ''s it needs, only I
can't put those ''s in in general or the floats and longs turn into
strings too, breaking other stuff.

It's the ugliest code I've written (well, since that bit of Perl I did
last week) and I'm about to throw a brick at the screen. All this just
to rejig a structure a bit. Surely this can be done with histogram()
or something ;-)

--
Edd

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		Re: Maddening structures By: Jean H. on Mon, 18 September 2006 09:40
		Re: Maddening structures By: David Fanning on Mon, 18 September 2006 07:16
		Re: Maddening structures By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 18 September 2006 06:55
		Re: Maddening structures By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 18 September 2006 06:54
		Re: Maddening structures By: David Fanning on Mon, 18 September 2006 06:52
		Re: Maddening structures By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 18 September 2006 05:24
		Re: Maddening structures By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 18 September 2006 05:23
		Re: Maddening structures By: Maarten[1] on Mon, 18 September 2006 05:13

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