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Re: Null terminated strings [message #28742 is a reply to message #28677]

Wed, 09 January 2002 00:29

Struan Gray
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Registered: December 1995

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James Kuyper, kuyper@gscmail.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:

> I'm still wonder how to best convert a null-delimited
> list of strings into an IDL string array (it's just
> curiousity, I don't have any immediate need for that
> ability). My best solution so far is to convert it to a byte
> array, find the null delimiting characters with where(), and
> then write a loop to convert each subarray into a seperate
> IDL string. This should work, but I'm always suspicious of
> the efficiency of any solution for an IDL problem that
> involves an explicit loop.

</lurk>

Sounds like a job for supersonic HISTOGRAM and his
ever-eager sidekick REVERSE_INDICES.

Struan
<lurk>

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		Null terminated strings By: James Kuyper on Mon, 07 January 2002 10:11
		Re: Null terminated strings By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 09 January 2002 15:43
		Re: Null terminated strings By: James Kuyper on Wed, 09 January 2002 06:19
		Re: Null terminated strings By: Struan Gray on Thu, 10 January 2002 06:57
		Re: Null terminated strings By: Malcolm Walters on Wed, 09 January 2002 02:26
		Re: Null terminated strings By: Struan Gray on Wed, 09 January 2002 00:29
		Re: Null terminated strings By: James Kuyper on Tue, 08 January 2002 12:58
		Re: Null terminated strings By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 08 January 2002 11:51
		Re: Null terminated strings By: thompson on Tue, 08 January 2002 09:17
		Re: Null terminated strings By: Jaco van Gorkom on Tue, 08 January 2002 08:17

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