| Re: converting a string to an IDL command [message #62393 is a reply to message #62391] |
Mon, 08 September 2008 10:14   |
pgrigis
Messages: 436
Registered: September 2007
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Hi David,
lots of posts today, did you give up your new job already?
Not that anybody here would complain about that ... ;-)
Ciao,
Paolo
David Fanning wrote:
> Mark writes:
>
>> I find myself constantly doing things like:
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>> print,' min(x), max(x) ',min(x),max(x)
>>
>> Is is possible to do something along the lines of:
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>> char=' min(x),max(x) '
>> some_function,char
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>> where some_function would change char into one line of IDL code? That
>> is, if x=findgen(10)
>> sub_function would print something like:
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>> min(x),max(x) ,0.000 ,9.000
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>> Seems like this wouldn't be so hard. I'm interested in something that
>> would work with Unix.
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> I think it might take all of 10 seconds to write your
> own MINMAX routine in IDL that did exactly what you have
> in mind. Then, you could do it all in *one* line! :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> 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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