comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Re: best way to find the variable name of a structure from RESTORE-ing a sav file

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: best way to find the variable name of a structure from RESTORE-ing a sav file

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: best way to find the variable name of a structure from RESTORE-ing a sav file [message #32192]

Fri, 20 September 2002 11:40

Craig Markwardt
Messages: 1869
Registered: November 1996

Senior Member

Robert Stockwell <rgs1967@hotmail.com> writes:

> anyone have good ideas on how to programatically find
> the name of a variable in memory, that happens to be
> a structure. The reason I don't know the name is that I
> am restoring a structure from an IDL sav file. The structure
> is the only thing in the sav file.
>
>

How about using CMSAVEDIR? It reports all of the variables in a save
file without having to restore it. Then you'll know ahead of time.
In fact, with CMRESTORE, you can rename the variable to something else
if you wish.

Craig

http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/idl.html (under SAVE files)

--
------------------------------------------------------------ --------------
Craig B. Markwardt, Ph.D. EMAIL: craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu
Astrophysics, IDL, Finance, Derivatives | Remove "net" for better response
------------------------------------------------------------ --------------

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

Re: best way to find the variable name of a structure from RESTORE-ing a sav file

By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 20 September 2002 11:40

Previous Topic:	custom color table
Next Topic:	Re: best way to find the variable name of a structure from RESTORE-ing a sav file (thanks)

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Fri Oct 10 11:38:09 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.80311 seconds