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Re: passing strings as arguments? [message #25366 is a reply to message #25226]

Mon, 04 June 2001 23:41

R.Bauer
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Mike Chinander wrote:
>
> In article <yx6h3d9gufti.fsf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>,
> <noymer@socrates.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>> I am using Ronn Kling's PLOTSYM, the usage of which is:
>>
>> plot,x,y,psym=plotsym(/circle,scale=2,/fill)
>>
>> instead of /circle, one could use /box, /triangle, etc...
>>
>> I have something like:
>>
>> IF (condition) THEN myshape=string('/circle') ELSE
>> myshape=string('/triangle')
>> ENDIF
>>
>> and I want to pass the string "myshape" to plotsym as the
>> first argument but I can't figure out how to do this in IDL 5.3.
>>
>> It seems not to like strings being passed there.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Andrew
>
> You could use the EXECUTE function. Something like
>
> result=EXECUTE('plot,x,y,psym=plotsym('+myshape+',scale=2,/f ill)')
>
> Hope that helps,

Remember if you are using the EXECUTE you are not able
to run the code by runtime.

regards

Reimar

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