| Re: type reform [message #54755 is a reply to message #54750] |
Wed, 04 July 2007 13:25  |
bill.dman
Messages: 17
Registered: June 2007
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On Jul 4, 2:07 pm, greg.a...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Is there any way to reform an array so that its type changes? I want
> to read a file format which contains a mixture of 2 and 4-byte
> integers. Rather than pre-build complicated structures to read it, it
> would be nice to read the whole thing as 2-byte values, cut it up as
> necessary, and then 'reform' the necessary blocks into 4-byte integers
> with no processing cost.
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> Essentially a way to convert an INT = Array[100] into a LONG =
> Array[50] ?
>
> Greg
Yes, look at the documentation for LONG(), FIX(), FLOAT(), and the
other type conversion routines.
It may not be obvious that when a second argument is supplied, these
will perform a bit pattern preserving type cast operation similar to
that in the C language.
Your case for example:
I = indgen(100)
L = long(I, 0, 50)
A couple of other examples on a little-endian host (Intel X86
processor):
IDL> b = [0B,0B,128B, 63B]
IDL> print, float(b)
0.00000 0.00000 128.000 63.0000
IDL> print, float(b,0)
1.00000
IDL> print, byte(1.0,0,4)
0 0 128 63
Be careful with byte order if you want your code to be portable to all
platforms supported by IDL!
-Bill
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