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Re: passing structure elements... by value? [message #25823 is a reply to message #25725]

Fri, 13 July 2001 09:53

david[2]
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Registered: June 2001

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Randall Skelton writes:

> I am seem to be somewhat confused on passing structure... this *almost*
> seems like one of those dreaded 'pass by reference/pass by value'
> problems...
>
> I have a simple routine that increments the value of a structure:
>
> pro test, mod_struct
> for i=0, n_tags(mod_struct)-1 do begin
> mod_struct.(i) = mod_struct.(i) + 1
> endfor
> end
>
> As expected, this will increment all of the values in a passed structure.
>
> IDL> struct = {A:0, B:0} & big = replicate(struct,3)
> IDL> print, big
> { 0 0}{ 0 0}{ 0 0}
> IDL> test, big
> IDL> print, big
> { 1 1}{ 1 1}{ 1 1}
>
> But, when I try and increment a single element in the structure it fails?
>
> IDL> struct = {A:0, B:0} & big = replicate(struct,3)
> IDL> test, big[0]
> IDL> print, big
> { 0 0}{ 0 0}{ 0 0}
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I expected the ^^ element above to be ones? Is there any way to force IDL
> to pass this by reference instead of passing by value? It would be nice if
> you could put brackets around the thing you want to pass by reference...
> something like '(big[0])'

You could easily add the field you want to change as
a second positional parameter:

pro test, mod_struct, fieldno
IF N_Elements(filedno) EQ 0 THEN BEGIN
for I=0, n_tags(mod_struct)-1 do begin
mod_struct.(I) = mod_struct.(I) + 1
endfor
ENDIF ELSE mod_struct.(fieldno) = mod_struct.(fieldno) + 1
end

Cheers,

David
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		passing structure elements... by value? By: Randall Skelton on Fri, 13 July 2001 09:03
		Re: passing structure elements... by value? By: Vince Hradil on Tue, 17 July 2001 08:54
		Re: passing structure elements... by value? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Mon, 16 July 2001 02:45
		Re: passing structure elements... by value? By: david[2] on Fri, 13 July 2001 09:53
		Re: passing structure elements... by value? By: Liam E. Gumley on Fri, 13 July 2001 09:39

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