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Re: array dimensions [message #24668 is a reply to message #24576]

Mon, 09 April 2001 07:56

Paul van Delst
Messages: 364
Registered: March 1997

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Martin Schultz wrote:
>
> "Richard G. French" wrote:
>>
>> David Fanning wrote:
>>>> dimensions = Size(myarray, /Dimensions)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>
>> David is the master of keywords - I've used SIZE all these years without
>> knowing that there was a /DIMENSIONS keyword. I guess the only way to
>> know about these things is to read through the documentation over and
>> over again and take notes on potentially useful keywords and options.
>>
>> Which brings me to my question - does anyone out there have a favorite
>> keyword on a routine that we mere mortals might not know about, but
>> which
>> might make our lives much easier? Any suggestions welcome, except for
>> HISTOGRAM and PLOT!
>>
>> Dick French
>
> Not a favorite keyword, but a favorite tool: Get a decent system (if
> you haven't one), install emacs with idlwave, run the routine-info
> collection, and then you have all the keywords you never knew but
> always dreamt about literally at your fingertips.

Similar to typing "?" at the IDL prompt and getting similar info - with examples no less!
Gasp!

paulv

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		Array Dimensions and WRITE_GIF By: Burkhard Prause on Fri, 26 December 1997 00:00
		Re: array dimensions By: wmconnolley on Mon, 09 April 2001 02:40
		Re: array dimensions By: Martin Schultz on Mon, 09 April 2001 01:16
		Re: array dimensions By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 09 April 2001 07:56
		Re: array dimensions By: davidf on Sun, 08 April 2001 20:13
		Re: array dimensions By: James Kuyper on Mon, 09 April 2001 08:20
		Re: array dimensions By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 09 April 2001 06:23
		Re: array dimensions By: Richard French on Sun, 08 April 2001 19:42
		Re: array dimensions By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 09 April 2001 07:52
		Re: array dimensions By: davidf on Sun, 08 April 2001 18:29
		Re: array dimensions By: web on Sun, 08 April 2001 17:55
		Re: array dimensions By: davidf on Sun, 08 April 2001 09:11
		Re: array dimensions By: francesco.spada on Sun, 08 April 2001 08:38
		Re: array dimensions By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 08 April 2001 07:33
		Re: array dimensions By: davidf on Sun, 08 April 2001 07:09
		Re: array dimensions By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 08 April 2001 06:37
		Re: array dimensions By: davidf on Sat, 07 April 2001 18:40
		Re: array dimensions By: davidf on Sat, 07 April 2001 18:38
		Re: array dimensions By: Richard French on Sat, 07 April 2001 16:41
		Re: array dimensions By: Alex Schuster on Mon, 09 April 2001 08:28
		Re: array dimensions By: davidf on Sat, 07 April 2001 07:03

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