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Re: N_ELEMENTS gt 0 [message #58674]

Thu, 14 February 2008 02:00

Maarten[1]
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Registered: November 2005

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On Feb 14, 9:37 am, chloesharro...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is it possible to combine the N_ELEMENTS function with the greater
> than operator? I just want to search through an array and find out
> how many elements exist which are greater than zero (I don't need to
> know where they are, just how many), but I can't get it to work.

[snip]

> Is there a way to do this without using a where function?

Yes, either use where() if you may need the indices later on, or
number = total(good_index gt 0, /int)
This relies on 'truth' being equal to 1 and 'false' equal to 0.

Maarten

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