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Re: Assigning structure tag names from variables? [message #42999 is a reply to message #42998]

Mon, 14 March 2005 11:51

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> Is there any way to use a variable as the name of a structure tag? For
> instance:
>
> tagnamevar='mytagname'
> somedata=1.2
> structurename={tagnamevar:somedata}
> print,tag_names(structurename)
>
> Returns, as you IDL'ers know,
> TAGNAMEVAR and not MYTAGNAME

You can specify a structure name via a variable using the CREATE_STRUCT() function, but I
don't know how you'd use automatic structure definitions though (you'd still need a
routine mytagname__define). Maybe using the EXECUTE function?

paulv

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		Re: Assigning structure tag names from variables? By: Benjamin Hornberger on Mon, 14 March 2005 11:52
		Re: Assigning structure tag names from variables? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 14 March 2005 11:51
		Re: Assigning structure tag names from variables? By: Jonathan Greenberg on Mon, 14 March 2005 11:59

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