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Re: Newbie IDL question [message #52111 is a reply to message #28459]

Mon, 08 January 2007 15:48

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:40:55 -0800, tony.ohagan wrote:

> I new to IDL but have lots of experience in other programming languages.
>
> It appears that all nested control statements IF/CASE/WHILE etc force me
> to
> suffix every line with & $ to avoid syntax errors. Is there any way of
> ridding myself of this pain?
>
> Example:
>
> name = 'Larry'
> CASE name OF & $
> 'Larry': PRINT, 'Stooge 1' & $
> 'Moe': PRINT, 'Stooge 2' & $
> 'Curly': PRINT, 'Stooge 3' & $
> ELSE: PRINT, 'Not a Stooge' & $
> ENDCASE

Do you mean from the command line? Put them in a file foo.pro sans & $
and:

IDL> .run foo

JD

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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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