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Re: FOR statement [message #24752 is a reply to message #24747]

Thu, 12 April 2001 09:18

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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Eli Beckerman <ebeckerman@cfa.harvard.edu> writes:

> Hey,
>
> I just tried running a FOR loop in the hopes
> of incrementing the variable "i" by steps of 0.25 as follows:
>
> radius=fltarr(1000)
> FOR i=0.0, 100.0, 0.25 DO BEGIN
>
> radius(i)=i
>
> ENDFOR
>
>
> And what I end up with is an array that starts
> with the value 0.75 and is incremented by steps of 1.
>
> I'm following the convention of the FOR statement as
> presented in IDL's online help. What am I doing wrong?!

You appear to be mixing the semantics of indexing with assignment.
What do you think happens when you do radius(0.25) = 0.25, which is
followed by radius(0.5) = 0.5 and radius(0.75) = 0.75? IDL
automatically converts floating point array indices into integers by
rounding down, so all of the statements I just mentioned affect the
same array element, and 0.75 supercedes because it is last.

You probably want:

FOR i=0.0, 100.0, 0.25 DO radius(i*4)=i

Or better yet:

FOR i=0, 999 do radius(i) = i * 0.25
(which avoids the ambiguity of indexing by a floating point number)

Or even better:

radius = findgen(400)*0.25
(avoids FOR loops altogether)

Also, why do you have a 1000 element array when you only fill the
first 400 elements?

Craig

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		Re: FOR statement By: Eli Beckerman on Fri, 13 April 2001 13:17
		Re: FOR statement By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 12 April 2001 14:04
		Re: FOR statement By: Eli Beckerman on Thu, 12 April 2001 12:41
		Re: FOR statement By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 12 April 2001 09:18
		Re: FOR statement By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 12 April 2001 09:15
		Re: FOR statement By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 12 April 2001 09:12
		Re: FOR statement By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 12 April 2001 08:57
		Re: FOR statement By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 12 April 2001 09:04

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