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Re: Array indexing "Feature" [message #28468 is a reply to message #28466]

Wed, 12 December 2001 14:28

Craig Markwardt
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Andrew Cool <andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> One of my colleagues has noted something apparently screwy in the
> indexing of
> arrays.
>
> e.g. a = indgen(10)
> print, a(9) -> you get 9
> print, a(10) -> you get an error, as expected for a zero-based
> index
>
> but if you access the array with the index as a vector, it seems to
> truncate the index to the maximum allowable:

See "Using Arrays as Subscripts" in the manual. I believe this
behavior has been true since the dawn of SYSTIME().

Craig

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		Re: Array indexing "Feature" By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 17 December 2001 09:40
		Re: Array indexing "Feature" By: k-bowman on Thu, 13 December 2001 08:35
		Re: Array indexing "Feature" By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 13 December 2001 07:23
		Re: Array indexing "Feature" By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 13 December 2001 06:17
		Re: Array indexing "Feature" By: David Fanning on Wed, 12 December 2001 16:48
		Re: Array indexing "Feature" By: Kristine Hensel on Wed, 12 December 2001 16:31
		Re: Array indexing "Feature" By: Andrew Cool on Wed, 12 December 2001 16:10
		Re: Array indexing "Feature" By: Jeff Jones on Wed, 12 December 2001 15:03
		Re: Array indexing "Feature" By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 12 December 2001 14:44
		Re: Array indexing "Feature" By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 12 December 2001 14:28
		Re: Array indexing "Feature" By: David Fanning on Wed, 12 December 2001 14:12

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