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Re: Dumb Dumb Question [message #13557 is a reply to message #13554]

Wed, 18 November 1998 00:00

Liam Gumley
Messages: 473
Registered: November 1994

Senior Member

Colin Rosenthal wrote:
>
> This may be really stupid, but is there a way around the following
> feature:
>
> pro x_test,x=x,x2=x2
> if n_elements(x) ne 0 then print, 'x=',x
> if n_elements(x2) ne 0 then print, 'x2=',x2
> end
>
> when I run it with
>> x_test,x=1
> I get
> % Ambiguous keyword abbreviation: X.
> % Execution halted at: $MAIN$
>
> Does this mean no IDL procedure will ever work if one keyword is a left
> substring of another keyword? Can I force IDL to interpret the "x" as "x"
> and not an ambiguous abbreviation for "x2"?

According to the IDL 5.1 online help under 'Building IDL Applications |
Defining Procedures and Functions | Parameters', it says

"When calling a routine with a keyword parameter, you can abbreviate the
keyword to its shortest, unambiguous abbrevation".

Cheers,
Liam.

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Liam E. Gumley
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison
1225 W. Dayton St., Madison WI 53706, USA
Phone (608) 265-5358, Fax (608) 262-5974
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley

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