| Re: Q:assigning arrays in steps [message #4162] |
Wed, 10 May 1995 00:00  |
Fergus Gallagher
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Brett Hennig <bretth@lovelace.maths.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> I've been using idl for one whole week now,
> so excuse me if this question is stupid.
> In Fortran90 you can assign arrays like:
> x(0:10)=y(0:40:4)
> where the last 4 is a step increment.
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> Can this sort of stuff be done with idl?
>
G'day,
Easily (not as elegant as F90, but more flexible).
You can index any elements of an array with another array. In your case:
IDL> x(0:10) = y(indgen(11)*4)
In 2D, this must be a two stage process, since, for example
x(0:10,0:10) <> x(indgen(11),indgen(11))
The latter is the vector
[x(0,0), x(1,1), x(2,2),....x(10,10)]
so you would have to write the assignment as:
IDL> tmp = y(indgen(11)*4,*) ; 11xN
IDL> x(0:10,0:10) = tmp(*,indgen(11)*4); 11x11
An additional point: you can insert an array into another (larger) array
just by specifying the offset, without the range. For example, the last
assignment above could have be written as;
IDL> x(0,0) = tmp(....)
which obviously generalises to abitrary offsets.
Fergus
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