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Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial [message #67035 is a reply to message #67021]

Thu, 25 June 2009 07:07

Matt[2]
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Jeremy Bailin <astroconst@gmail.com> writes:

> There are probably two reasons why VALUE_LOCATE is underused. The
> first is that it was only introduced in IDL 5.3, well after many
> people developed their core techniques. The second is that the help
> page is somewhat opaque on what it actually does. The basic idea is
> pretty simple: given two arrays Values and Array,

I think the main reason it's not used is because it's so poorly named.
How would you find this if you just wanted to partition some data? I
can't remember who pointed it out to me first, but I do remember
thinking to myself, "Hmm, that's useful, wonder why I've never heard of
it".

Cheers,
Matt

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		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Jeremy Bailin on Fri, 26 June 2009 08:54
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: ben.bighair on Thu, 25 June 2009 16:57
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: David Fanning on Thu, 25 June 2009 16:00
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: ben.bighair on Thu, 25 June 2009 15:48
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 25 June 2009 14:21
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 25 June 2009 14:14
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Matt[2] on Thu, 25 June 2009 07:07
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: Jeremy Bailin on Wed, 24 June 2009 15:20
		Re: VALUE_LOCATE tutorial By: David Fanning on Wed, 24 June 2009 08:15
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