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Determining a safe variable name from a string [message #51033]

Tue, 31 October 2006 09:53

Ben Panter
Messages: 102
Registered: July 2003

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Hi Folks,

I'm sure I've seen this here before, but extensive googling didn't
trawl anything up. I'd like to be able to convert a random string into
something I can use for a variable name (heavy execute'ing going on
here). Something that clears out all the ./*/&//'s and the like. Ideally
it would replace them with something useful, realistically I'd be happy
if it just removed the unsafe characters from the string.

something like:

res=wonderful_routine('vmax_z0.1_0.3')
print, res
vmax_z0p1_0p3

I've already written something similar which I can butcher, but I'm
sure there was an IDL routine that did this already?

Many thanks,

Ben

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