| Re: converting a string to an IDL command [message #62396 is a reply to message #62391] |
Mon, 08 September 2008 09:51  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724 Registered: August 2001
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Mark writes:
> I find myself constantly doing things like:
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> print,' min(x), max(x) ',min(x),max(x)
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> Is is possible to do something along the lines of:
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> char=' min(x),max(x) '
> some_function,char
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> where some_function would change char into one line of IDL code? That
> is, if x=findgen(10)
> sub_function would print something like:
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> min(x),max(x) ,0.000 ,9.000
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> Seems like this wouldn't be so hard. I'm interested in something that
> would work with Unix.
I think it might take all of 10 seconds to write your
own MINMAX routine in IDL that did exactly what you have
in mind. Then, you could do it all in *one* line! :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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