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Re: rstrpos: version 5.2 and version 5.3 [message #19098 is a reply to message #19097]

Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00

John-David T. Smith is currently offline

John-David T. Smith
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Andy Loughe wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In their latest software upgrade, did RSI really
> throw away the RSTRPOS function and replace it with
> STRPOS(/REVERSE_SEARCH) ?
>
> Would they like to fix all the code I have that uses
> RSTRPOS? No... I'll go write my own RSTRPOS.pro, thank you,
> or replace *all* my RSTRPOS with STRPOS(/REVERSE_SEARCH).
>
> This kind of non-backwards compatability gives
> IDL a bad name... I hear the complaint very often
> from ex-IDL programmers.
>

It's there.

You just need to add lib/obsolete under rsi/idl to your IDL search path, or,
equivalently, search all sub-paths of lib. I do this as a matter of course, to
ensure such things don't happen.

JD

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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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