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Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 [message #19094 is a reply to message #19088]

Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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J.D. Smith (jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu) writes:

> IDL objects to the mentioning of a function it can't find. Simply use
> call_function and it can't complain (how can it object to a string?).
>
> IF Float(!Version.Release) GT 5.2 THEN $
> dot=call_function("StrPos",line,".",/Reverse_Search) $
> ELSE $
> dot=call_function("RStrPos",line, ".")

The problem is not that IDL doesn't like the function.
The problem is that it doesn't like the new keyword:

IDL> dot=call_function("StrPos",'coyote.dat',".",/Reverse_Search)
% Keyword parameters not allowed in call.
% Execution halted at: $MAIN$

Cheers,

David
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		Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 25 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 By: mallors on Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 By: davidf on Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 By: davidf on Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 By: davidf on Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 By: davidf on Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 By: davidf on Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00

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