On Jul 14, 3:46 pm, Paul van Delst <Paul.vanDe...@noaa.gov> wrote:
> humanumbre...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Jul 14, 11:41 am, Bob Crawford <Snowma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Jul 14, 11:16 am, humanumbre...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> Another issue - perhaps one of you has encountered this before. It's
>>>> sort of a neat problem. I'm attempting to build array subscripts on
>>>> the fly based on user input. IE the number of static/variable elements
>>>> is changing, which allows the user to pick different axes to plot.
>>>> Nevermind all that.
>>>> Anyway, let's say a user wants a particular axis to be variable. In
>>>> this case, the dataset array where I'm attempting to pull values from
>>>> would contain a *, to get all these elements. Unfortunately, I do not
>>>> know in advance which dimension of the array I will be using, so I am
>>>> attempting to build the subscript based on a string.
>>>> This was my original thought:
>>>> a = dindgen(5,5,5)
>>>> b = ['3','3','3']
>>>> print, a[b]
>>>> but this just returns a[3], a[3], a[3]
>>>> So, I figured I'd do it this way:
>>>> c = '3'
>>>> print, a[c,c,c] -- This works!
>>>> Now for the gold,
>>>> d = '*'
>>>> print, a[c,c,d] -- error - can't convert string-> long
>>>> so I get an idea-- maybe I'll just use the ascii value for the
>>>> asterisk.
>>>> d = String(42b)
>>>> print, a[c,d,d] -- error - can't convert string-> long
>>>> Any thoughts ?
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>> --Justin
>>> Why try to force the '*' - might not SIZE be more useful?
>>> e.g.
>>> s=SIZE(a)
>>> print, a[c,c,s[3]] ; for a[c,c,d]
>>> print, a[c,s[2],s[3]]; for a[c,d,d]
>
>> Hey Bob,
>
>> Thanks for the post!
>> I think I may need to elaborate a bit more --
>> I need the entire row of the multi-dimensional array.
>> So, for example, let's say I have an array that is 30 x 20 x 50
>> I will need *,0,0 to plot the first 30 values
>> but I could just as easily need 0,*,0 or 0,0,* Depending on user
>> input, so I can't anticipate that in advance.
>
> What about using execute? I didn't have any problems constructing a string to execute that
> included the '*' character:
>
> pro testit, n
> a=indgen(30,20,50)
> help, a
> info=size(a,/structure)
>
> index = make_array(info.n_dimensions,value='0')
> index[n] = '*'
>
> exestring = 'x = reform(a['+strjoin(index,',')+'])'
> result = execute(exestring)
> help, x
> end
>
> IDL> testit,0
> A INT = Array[30, 20, 50]
> X INT = Array[30]
> IDL> testit,1
> A INT = Array[30, 20, 50]
> X INT = Array[20]
> IDL> testit,2
> A INT = Array[30, 20, 50]
> X INT = Array[50]
>
> ??
>
> cheers,
>
> paulv
Paulv,
You're the champion of the day! Thanks kindly for your suggestion!
I was unaware of the execute command.
Thanks !!
Cheers,
--Justin
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