| Re: IDL Workbench Path Woes [message #59585 is a reply to message #59339] |
Wed, 02 April 2008 10:30   |
Spon
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Registered: September 2007
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On Apr 2, 6:21 pm, Spon <christoph.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 5:34 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
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>> Spon writes:
>>> As I'm currently in the grip of evangelical fervour induced by a
>>> re-reading of JD Smith's (in)famous oration -
>>> http://www.dfanning.com/tips/forloops.html-I've discovered that you
>>> can replace the FOR loop by using TRANSPOSE; like this:
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>>> Print, Transpose(StrSplit(!PATH, Path_Sep(/SEARCH_PATH), /Extract))
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>> JD, of course, is famous, but hardly anyone reads (well,
>> finishes) his articles. I, on the other hand, am not
>> famous at all, but a lot of people have read the nonsense
>> I've written. The difference between us is the
>> energy differential given off by the human brain when
>> they read a line of code like that compared to my humble
>> PrintPath program. :-)
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>> Cheers,
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>> David
>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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> Butbutbut...
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> theSeparator = Path_Sep(/SEARCH_PATH)
> theStringArray = (!Path, theSeparator, /EXTRACT)
> theStringColumnArray = Transpose(theStringArray)
> Print, theStringColumnArray
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> ...and suddenly you'd be hard pushed to spot JD's influence at all ;-)
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> I think you're selling yourself short, David!
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> Chris
Grr... this is what I get for being a smart alec I guess.
This:
> theStringArray = (!Path, theSeparator, /EXTRACT)
Should of course read:
theStringArray = StrSplit(!Path, theSeparator, /EXTRACT)
:-(
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