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Re: renaming a variable without making a copy [message #69009 is a reply to message #68920]

Wed, 09 December 2009 09:06

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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>
> Here is a question, maybe related to the previous one, regarding
> variable typecast in IDL.
> Changing the type of one scalar variable, even a vector, is fairly
> easy by using the FIX function.
> But let suppose that I get a variable (for instance from an external
> routine, by reading a shared memory,
> a socket, etc...) that is described as a vector of byte (or integer or
> float or anything else).
> I want to further consider this variable as a (elsewhere defined)
> structure (in the IDL sense).
> In other words, I want to typecast an untyped variable to a structured
> one : what is the way in IDL ?

read about reads or execute

cheers
Reimar

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		Re: renaming a variable without making a copy By: David Fanning on Wed, 09 December 2009 05:19
		Re: renaming a variable without making a copy By: lecacheux.alain on Wed, 09 December 2009 01:42
		Re: renaming a variable without making a copy By: David Fanning on Tue, 08 December 2009 14:39
		Re: renaming a variable without making a copy By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 08 December 2009 14:39
		Re: renaming a variable without making a copy By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Tue, 08 December 2009 13:51
		Re: renaming a variable without making a copy By: David Higgins on Tue, 08 December 2009 06:51
		Re: renaming a variable without making a copy By: David Fanning on Tue, 08 December 2009 05:18
		Re: renaming a variable without making a copy By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 09 December 2009 07:02
		Re: renaming a variable without making a copy By: R.Bauer on Wed, 09 December 2009 09:06
		Re: renaming a variable without making a copy By: lecacheux.alain on Wed, 09 December 2009 06:33

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