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Re: Behaviour of REFORM() changed in IDL 5.5? [message #29247 is a reply to message #29241]

Fri, 08 February 2002 08:57

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Georg Wiora wrote:
>
> Hi everybody!
>
> I just found out that the behaviour of the REFORM() function
> seems to be changed in IDL 5.5. With IDL 5.4 I was able to
> reform a one dimensional array to a two dimensional with a
> trailing dimension of size one. With idl 5.5 these dimension
> is removed automaticaly. But from the documentation the
> automatic reduction of dimensions should only happen if no
> dimensions are specified. This change is not documented in
> the (windows) help file.
>
> Here is my example:
> array = INDGEN(100)
> image = REFORM(100,1)
>
> In IDl 5.4 the result was: image[100,1]
> In IDl 5.5 the result is: image[100]
>
> Is there anything known about a bug fix for that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Georg

Are you sure ?

IDL> array = INDGEN(100)
IDL> image = REFORM(array,100,1)
IDL> help,image
IMAGE INT = Array[100, 1]

IDL> help ,!version,/str
** Structure !VERSION, 8 tags, length=76, data length=76:
ARCH STRING 'x86'
OS STRING 'linux'
OS_FAMILY STRING 'unix'
OS_NAME STRING 'linux'
RELEASE STRING '5.5'
BUILD_DATE STRING 'Aug 28 2001'
MEMORY_BITS INT 32
FILE_OFFSET_BITS
INT 32

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		Re: Behaviour of REFORM() changed in IDL 5.5? By: Robert Stockwell on Fri, 08 February 2002 10:15
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		Re: Behaviour of REFORM() changed in IDL 5.5? By: thompson on Fri, 08 February 2002 08:42
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