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Re: Search routines [message #12849 is a reply to message #12829]

Fri, 18 September 1998 00:00

davidf
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Kenneth P. Bowman (bowman@null.edu) writes:

> IDL has a pretty good SORT routine, but no SEARCH routine that I have been
> able to find (that is, a procedure to find the index of the closest/first
> match in an ordered list). Once again, this can be done with loops, but
> such an implementation would almost certainly be much slower than a
> built-in function. Since searching and sorting are such basic operations,
> does anyone know why there is no SEARCH in IDL?

I thought that was the point of the WHERE function. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Search routines By: bowman on Fri, 18 September 1998 00:00
		Re: Search routines By: Liam Gumley on Fri, 18 September 1998 00:00
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		Re: Search routines By: Alexander Proussevitc on Fri, 18 September 1998 00:00
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