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Re: Creating Variables in Programs [message #12194 is a reply to message #12188]

Fri, 10 July 1998 00:00

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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Perry Phillips wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a way to create a new array under program control, ie
> create a string and use that string to make an array. As far as I can see
> this is impossible in IDL?
>
> --
> Perry Phillips p.phillips@mail.utexas.edu

here's a quick example

IDL> r=execute('a=fltarr(200)')
IDL> help,a
A FLOAT = Array[200]

Martin.
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