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Re: help command [message #8100]

Mon, 10 February 1997 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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R. Bauer <r.bauer@kfa-juelich.de> writes:

> I like to know which variables are defined during running of a
> procedure.
>
> How can I save the output from help to a stringarray?
>
> Or did somenone know how help finds out, which variables are defined?

This is the purpose of the IDL function GETHELP.

IDL> varinfo = GETHELP()

Cheers!

David

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