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Re: Newbie IDL question [message #52107 is a reply to message #28459]

Mon, 08 January 2007 20:29

tony.ohagan
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Registered: January 2007

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tony.oha...@gmail.com wrote:
>> If this already in a program, you don't need the & and $. If this is
>> at the command line, I must ask, why are you using a case block at the
>> command line? Seems, well, strange, but that's just me.
>
> No I'm not using it from the command line.
> I've already got it inside a .pro file.
> I'm running it via NASA's SeaDAS library - perhaps this is the culprit?
>
> $ seadas myprog.pro
>
> I agree that it's very strange and contrary to all examples in the IDL
> manuals.
> Unfortunately if I don't use "& $" suffixes I get syntax errors.
>
>> If you're using if, else, for, or while, and sometimes case and switch,
>> then you should be using begin and end[if|else|for|while]. Here's a
>> short example for each:
>
> In fact I'm already using begin/ends in my case statements.
> I've read the IDL manuals on case statements.
> This example was from the manual.

Ahh ... actually I can reproduce the same sytax errors when running the
program from
$ idl myprog.pro

... so it's not seadas.

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		Newbie IDl question By: John[1] on Wed, 12 December 2001 20:47
		Re: Newbie IDL question By: Mike[2] on Mon, 08 January 2007 20:53
		Re: Newbie IDL question By: tony.ohagan on Mon, 08 January 2007 20:29
		Re: Newbie IDL question By: tony.ohagan on Mon, 08 January 2007 20:26
		Re: Newbie IDL question By: Braedley on Mon, 08 January 2007 20:04
		Re: Newbie IDL question By: JD Smith on Mon, 08 January 2007 15:48

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