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Re: journal file contents [message #30166 is a reply to message #30023]

Thu, 04 April 2002 14:36

Med Bennett
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David Fanning wrote:

> Med Bennett (mwbennett@windra.com) writes:
>
>> well, thanks David . . . I guess I should have said that I knew that there
>> were ways in this case to get around the problem - but what if there was
>> information that only the help command could give you that you wanted to show
>> up in the journal file?
>
> Well, then I think you would have to do this:
>
> IDL> Help, myvar, /Structure, Output=text
> IDL> FOR j=0,N_Elements(text)-1 DO Print, text[j]
>
> Of course, you would probably want to wrap those
> two commands up into a procedure called J_Help
> (or something) so you could just do this while
> you were journaling:
>
> IDL> J_Help, myvar, /Structure
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
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brilliant as usual, David! Thanks again-

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