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Re: Arrays in structures; workarounds? [message #19961 is a reply to message #19958]

Thu, 04 May 2000 00:00

Ed Santiago
Messages: 8
Registered: January 2000

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> Here was one trick I found to determine the size of a structure tag,
>if it has *at least* two elements.

Cool. Weird... but cool. Thanks; I've added it to my bag of
tricks (which already contains a heckuva lot of craigm code & ideas).

>A comment on your procedure. I believe that you are treating the
>output of HELP too simply. When tag names are long enough, help will
>wrap the type description to the next line. Consider this:

Guilty as charged. I briefly considered cleaning up the code so it
handles that case, but decided it wasn't worth the time investment.
The esmsize() function serves in a controlled environment where I
know the _name_ of the structure element I want ("DATA"), but not
the dimensions (incredibly complex -- but flexible! -- telemetry
mode sets for an instrument on Deep Space One).

So in the usual "write-code-when-I-need-it" manner, I left the
multi-line HELP handling as an exercise for the reader... and
never thought anyone else but me would even care.

Wishing I had the time to hack PDL to where it suits my needs,
^E
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Eduardo Santiago Software Type esm@lanl.gov RKBA!

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		Re: Arrays in structures; workarounds? By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 04 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Arrays in structures; workarounds? By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 04 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Arrays in structures; workarounds? By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 04 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Arrays in structures; workarounds? By: Ed Santiago on Thu, 04 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Arrays in structures; workarounds? By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 04 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Arrays in structures; workarounds? By: Ed Santiago on Thu, 04 May 2000 00:00

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