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Re: Determining a safe variable name from a string [message #51032 is a reply to message #51029]

Tue, 31 October 2006 10:15

David Fanning
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Ben Panter writes:

> I'm sure I've seen this here before, but extensive googling didn't
> trawl anything up. I'd like to be able to convert a random string into
> something I can use for a variable name (heavy execute'ing going on
> here). Something that clears out all the ./*/&//'s and the like. Ideally
> it would replace them with something useful, realistically I'd be happy
> if it just removed the unsafe characters from the string.
>
> something like:
>
> res=wonderful_routine('vmax_z0.1_0.3')
> print, res
> vmax_z0p1_0p3
>
> I've already written something similar which I can butcher, but I'm
> sure there was an IDL routine that did this already?

I think you must be talking about that wonderful (nee miraculous)
function Stregex. Combined with StrSplit and StrJoin, fabulous
things can be done in a single line!

http://www.dfanning.com/code_tips/stringsubs.html

Cheers,

David

P.S. Have you moved back to Edinburgh? Is your apartment
big enough for a visitor? :-)

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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