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Re: Compilation Error: Procedure header must appear first and onlyonce [message #76800 is a reply to message #76710]

Wed, 29 June 2011 14:39

Michael Galloy
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On 6/29/11 1:11 PM, Maegereg wrote:
> On 6/29/11 11:30 AM, Michael Galloy wrote:
>
>> These errors are usually indicative that you think you are calling a
>> function, but IDL thinks you are indexing an array. I would use
>> "compile_opt strictarr" at the beginning of each routine *and* only use
>> square brackets to index the array.
>
> It works! All the compile errors disappeared when I added compile_opt strictarr to their functions. Thank you very much for your help. I would not have thought to try that in a thousand years.

Glad that fixed it! Yes, errors of this type of problem can be very
difficult to track down: "syntax error" doesn't give you much to go on.
I use "compile_opt strictarr" always just so that I don't get stumped by
this error every once in a while.

Mike
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		Re: Compilation Error: Procedure header must appear first and onlyonce By: Carsten Lechte on Wed, 29 June 2011 08:16
		Re: Compilation Error: Procedure header must appear first and onlyonce By: Maegereg on Wed, 29 June 2011 07:38
		Re: Compilation Error: Procedure header must appear first and onlyonce By: David Fanning on Wed, 29 June 2011 20:00
		Re: Compilation Error: Procedure header must appear first and onlyonce By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 29 June 2011 14:39
		Re: Compilation Error: Procedure header must appear first and onlyonce By: Maegereg on Wed, 29 June 2011 12:11
		Re: Compilation Error: Procedure header must appear first and onlyonce By: Maegereg on Wed, 29 June 2011 10:21
		Re: Compilation Error: Procedure header must appear first and onlyonce By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 29 June 2011 09:30
		Re: Compilation Error: Procedure header must appear first and onlyonce By: jaromrnelson on Mon, 20 June 2016 11:46

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