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Re: SIZE() vs. N_ELEMENTS() [message #67323 is a reply to message #67322]

Thu, 16 July 2009 13:04

David Fanning
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wlandsman writes:

> Immediately after posting I realized that the answer to the above
> question is "yes". In the following code using ASSOC(), N_Elements(a)
> equals 1, but size(a,/N_elements) equals 2. --Wayne
>
>
> b =3D {a:indgen(10),b:fltarr(100)}
> openw,lun,'test.dat',/get_lun
> writeu,lun,replicate(b,12)
> close,lun
>
> openr,lun,'test.dat'
> c =3D replicate(b,2)
> a =3D assoc(lun,c)
> print,size(a,/n_elements)
> print,N_elements(a)

Yes, but which is *correct*? :-)

Cheers,

David
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		Re: SIZE() vs. N_ELEMENTS() By: Craig Markwardt on Sat, 18 July 2009 02:40
		Re: SIZE() vs. N_ELEMENTS() By: wlandsman on Thu, 16 July 2009 13:25
		Re: SIZE() vs. N_ELEMENTS() By: David Fanning on Thu, 16 July 2009 13:11
		Re: SIZE() vs. N_ELEMENTS() By: David Fanning on Thu, 16 July 2009 13:04
		Re: SIZE() vs. N_ELEMENTS() By: wlandsman on Thu, 16 July 2009 12:59

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