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Re: Behaviour of REFORM() changed in IDL 5.5? [message #29248 is a reply to message #29247]

Fri, 08 February 2002 08:42

thompson
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Georg Wiora <georg.wiora@DaimlerChrysler.com> writes:

> 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?

I don't have the ability yet to run IDL/v5.5 myself (it requires an OS upgrade
I'm waiting on), but I've heard that other people have gotten very mad about
this behavior. Let us know what you find out.

Bill Thompson

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		Re: Behaviour of REFORM() changed in IDL 5.5? By: Robert Stockwell on Fri, 08 February 2002 10:15
		Re: Behaviour of REFORM() changed in IDL 5.5? By: R.Bauer on Fri, 08 February 2002 08:57
		Re: Behaviour of REFORM() changed in IDL 5.5? By: thompson on Fri, 08 February 2002 08:42
		Re: Behaviour of REFORM() changed in IDL 5.5? By: David Fanning on Fri, 08 February 2002 08:04
		Re: Behaviour of REFORM() changed in IDL 5.5? By: Georg Wiora on Mon, 11 February 2002 01:01

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