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Re: Rebin for strings [message #70095]

Thu, 11 March 2010 19:35

Michael Galloy
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On 3/11/10 2:31 pm, Gray wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a way to expand a 1-d string array into 2-d, just like
> I would use rebin for almost any other data type. For example, I'd
> like to do something like this:
>
> IDL> o = ['d','b','m','q','t']
> IDL> oo = rebin(transpose(o),14,5,/sample)
>
> But obviously that won't work. Is there a better way than something
> like this (which is okay here, but for more complicated examples might
> not be feasible):
>
> IDL> tmp = execute('oo = transpose([['+strjoin(replicate('o',14),'],[')
> +']]'))
>
> Any suggestions would be helpful!
>
> --Gray

The correspondence between strings and byte arrays makes strings not so
different from other types:

IDL> oo = string(reform(rebin(byte(o), 14, 5), 1, 14, 5))

Mike
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		Re: Rebin for strings By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 11 March 2010 19:35
		Re: Rebin for strings By: Heinz Stege on Thu, 11 March 2010 19:19
		Re: Rebin for strings By: rogass on Thu, 11 March 2010 14:18
		Re: Rebin for strings By: pgrigis on Thu, 11 March 2010 14:05

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