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Re: Dealing with list created by STRSPLIT? [message #76181 is a reply to message #76179]

Fri, 20 May 2011 07:45

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Barry Lesht writes:

> What I can't seem to figure out is how to now extract one of these
> terms from the list element. That is, I'd like to end up with arrays
> that have the n subdir2s (for example). I've tried using the
> LIST::TOARRAY () feature but this fails for some mysterious reason
> with the message
>
> IDL> namearray=splitnames.ToArray()
> % LIST::TOARRAY: Unable to convert to type STRING: Element 798
> % Error occurred at: LIST::TOARRAY
> % $MAIN$
> % Execution halted at: $MAIN$
>
> Element 798 is no different from any of the elements in the list, by
> the way, but this is not the real problem (at least I don't think it
> is)
>
> There must be an easy way to do this; I'm not seeing it. Any help
> would be much appreciated.

I think you are going to have to figure out what is up
with element 798. You might want to use the MISSING
keyword in the ToArray method.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Dealing with list created by STRSPLIT? By: BLesht on Fri, 20 May 2011 13:46
		Re: Dealing with list created by STRSPLIT? By: BLesht on Fri, 20 May 2011 13:45
		Re: Dealing with list created by STRSPLIT? By: David Fanning on Fri, 20 May 2011 10:28
		Re: Dealing with list created by STRSPLIT? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 20 May 2011 09:54
		Re: Dealing with list created by STRSPLIT? By: David Fanning on Fri, 20 May 2011 07:45
		Re: Dealing with list created by STRSPLIT? By: BLesht on Fri, 20 May 2011 07:20
		Re: Dealing with list created by STRSPLIT? By: Haje Korth on Fri, 20 May 2011 05:02
		Re: Dealing with list created by STRSPLIT? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Mon, 23 May 2011 13:43

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