| Re: Automatic truncation of trailing dimension..... [message #28260 is a reply to message #28255] |
Tue, 27 November 2001 14:06   |
Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997
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tam wrote:
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> Paul van Delst wrote:
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>> .....of an array when the dimension size is 1 is a real pain in the ass. Given:
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>> IDL> x=fltarr(100,1,15)
>> IDL> help, x
>> X FLOAT = Array[100, 1, 15]
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>> Is there anyway to prevent:
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>> IDL> help, x[*,*,1]
>> <Expression> FLOAT = Array[100]
>> IDL>
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>> i.e. to give:
>> <Expression> FLOAT = Array[100,1]
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>> Argh wot a pain.
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>> --
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> Under our previous president I guess I would have said
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> "I feel your pain"
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> but now it's
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> "This is evil."
Those darn evil evildoers.
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> You might find:
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<Link to Craig Markwardt's tirade against IDL mucking about and changing his data arrays
without at least asking first....snipped>
> to be helpful.
Oh, I've read Craig's, uh, comments about this, er, feature in the past.
> Everyone seems to be bitten by this at one time or another...
Well, usually those large chunks missing from my rear-end are my fault. Nuts. The chances of
this being FIXED by RSI are probably small since there is more than likely a lot more code that
would break if the auto-array-reformat wasn't done. Sigh.
paulv
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