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Re: Maddening structures [message #50219 is a reply to message #50218]

Mon, 18 September 2006 06:55

Edd Edmondson
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David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Edd writes:

>> OK, I've got some data read in so that I have a structure that looks
>> like
>>
>> data.foo[600]
>> .bar[600]
>> .baz[600]
>>
>> and I want
>> data[600].foo
>> .bar
>> .baz
>>
>> In other words I want an array of structures rather than a structure
>> of arrays.
>>
>> Does anyone have any magic that works for the case when foo, bar and
>> baz are not previously known?

> names = ['foo','bar', 'baz']
> struct = Create_Struct(names[0], 0.0, names[1], 0.0, names[2], 0.0)
> data = Replicate(struct, 600)

Fine, unless there might be further tags (which you can then solve
with a bit of looping and executing), and complicated when they aren't
all floats but a mix of floats, ints, longs and strings. See my other
post...

Think I'm getting there though. Whether anyone will be able to manage
this code later is another question.

--
Edd

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		Re: Maddening structures By: Jean H. on Mon, 18 September 2006 09:40
		Re: Maddening structures By: David Fanning on Mon, 18 September 2006 07:16
		Re: Maddening structures By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 18 September 2006 06:55
		Re: Maddening structures By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 18 September 2006 06:54
		Re: Maddening structures By: David Fanning on Mon, 18 September 2006 06:52
		Re: Maddening structures By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 18 September 2006 05:24
		Re: Maddening structures By: Edd Edmondson on Mon, 18 September 2006 05:23
		Re: Maddening structures By: Maarten[1] on Mon, 18 September 2006 05:13

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