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Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial [message #66996]

Fri, 26 June 2009 08:54

Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008

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On Jun 25, 5:14 pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
> In article <ywkuk530jtjl....@snowblow.colorado.edu>, sav...@nsidc.org
> wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Bailin <astroco...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I think the main reason it's not used is because it's so poorly named.
>> How would you find this if you just wanted to partition some data? I
>> can't remember who pointed it out to me first, but I do remember
>> thinking to myself, "Hmm, that's useful, wonder why I've never heard of
>> it".
>
>> Cheers,
>> Matt
>
> I think they knew that if they named it SEARCH it would conflict with
> thousands of user-written routines. :-)
>
> Ken

Pre-5.3, I had a homebrewed version of it called BSEARCH, that I
thought was pretty efficient but which gets blown out of the water by
VALUE_LOCATE!

-Jeremy.

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		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Jeremy Bailin on Fri, 26 June 2009 08:54
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: ben.bighair on Thu, 25 June 2009 16:57
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: David Fanning on Thu, 25 June 2009 16:00
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: ben.bighair on Thu, 25 June 2009 15:48
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 25 June 2009 14:21
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 25 June 2009 14:14
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Matt[2] on Thu, 25 June 2009 07:07
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Jeremy Bailin on Wed, 24 June 2009 15:20
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: David Fanning on Wed, 24 June 2009 08:15
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: rogass on Wed, 24 June 2009 00:46

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