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Re: TeXtoIDL fix for IDL 5.3 [message #18929 is a reply to message #18928]

Fri, 18 February 2000 00:00

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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Randall Smith <rsmith@kracko.harvard.edu> wrote in message
news:owemabj2db.fsf@kracko.harvard.edu...
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> Anyway, it turns out that RSI, in a fit of what can only be described
> as morally degenerate programming, added a new function (strtok) to
> the language, although they _didn't_ see fit to document this (it's
> apparently part of the new string routines stregex, strjoin, strmatch,
> and strsplit that are in IDL 5.3).

It's even more irritatingly trivial than that. They added strtok, then
decided to call it strsplit, but instead of renaming it they wrote strsplit
as a wrapper. Strsplit's code, in its entirety, is:

function strsplit, string, pattern, _ref_extra=extra

if (n_params() eq 1) then return, strtok(string, _extra=extra) $
else return, strtok(string, pattern, _extra=extra)

end

I hope RSI doesn't sue me for violating copyright by reproducing this. Think
of the advantage their competitors could gain by perusing it!

P.S. No more frivolous posts for a week, I promise!

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Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand

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		Re: TeXtoIDL fix for IDL 5.3 By: thompson on Fri, 18 February 2000 00:00
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