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Re: using an unlnown number of keywords [message #27411 is a reply to message #27391]

Fri, 19 October 2001 15:46

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Sean Raffuse (sean@me.wustl.edu) writes:

> I'm trying to write a more or less universal procedure that takes a data
> structure and prints the variables out one by one one a line in an ascii
> file. The problem is that the structure could have any number of variables.
> I want to do this:
>
> printf, lun, structure.var1, structure.var2, structure.var3, . . .,
> structure.varN
>
> If I know N, is there a way to do this without resorting to N cases?

How about something like this:

numTags = N_Tags(structure)
PrintF, lun, structure, Format='(' + StrTrim(numTags,2) + 'F10.2)'

Cheers,

David

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		Re: using an unlnown number of keywords By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 22 October 2001 13:32
		Re: using an unlnown number of keywords By: Sean Raffuse on Mon, 22 October 2001 13:00
		Re: using an unlnown number of keywords By: Liam E. Gumley on Mon, 22 October 2001 11:47
		Re: using an unlnown number of keywords By: Sean Raffuse on Mon, 22 October 2001 11:20
		Re: using an unlnown number of keywords By: David Fanning on Fri, 19 October 2001 15:46

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