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Re: How to get numbers into passed structure elements (pass-by-value/reference problem). [message #58922]

Thu, 28 February 2008 02:22

Wox
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:02:46 -0500, Paul van Delst
<Paul.vanDelst@noaa.gov> wrote:

> FUNCTION CRTM_Read_Atmosphere_Record, FileID , $ ; Input
> Atm , $ ; Output
> DEBUG=Debug ; Optional input
> .....
> FOR n = 0, Atm.n_Clouds-1 DO BEGIN
> result = CRTM_Read_Cloud_Record( FileID, (*Atm.Cloud)[n], DEBUG=Debug )
> ...check result....
> ENDFOR

So Atm.Cloud is a pointer to an array of structures. What if Atm.Cloud
would be a pointer to an array of pointers (each pointing to one
structure)? Than you could pass *(*Atm.Cloud)[n]

However, you would loose the ability to do something like this:
(*Atm.Cloud).Type to get all types of clouds.

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		Re: How to get numbers into passed structure elements (pass-by-value/reference problem). By: Wox on Thu, 28 February 2008 02:22
		Re: How to get numbers into passed structure elements (pass-by-value/reference problem). By: David Fanning on Thu, 28 February 2008 07:11
		Re: How to get numbers into passed structure elements (pass-by-value/reference problem). By: David Fanning on Thu, 28 February 2008 07:07
		Re: How to get numbers into passed structure elements (pass-by-value/reference problem). By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 28 February 2008 07:00

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