comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Re: Dumb Dumb Question

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: Dumb Dumb Question

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: Dumb Dumb Question [message #13568 is a reply to message #13565]

Tue, 17 November 1998 00:00

davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996

Senior Member

Colin Rosenthal (rosentha@asp.hao.ucar.edu) writes:

> 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"?

As far as I know, there is no way around this. But would
you believe that with as many IDL programs as I've written,
I've only run into this problem a handful of times. (But
once last week, as a matter of fact.)

Cheers,

David

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: Dumb Dumb Question By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 19 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Dumb Dumb Question By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 18 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Dumb Dumb Question By: Liam Gumley on Wed, 18 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Dumb Dumb Question By: Richard G. French on Tue, 17 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Dumb Dumb Question By: davidf on Tue, 17 November 1998 00:00

Previous Topic:	Re: how to shade region of 2-D plot
Next Topic:	Re: how do I do that?

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Sun Oct 12 01:30:47 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.71786 seconds