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Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header [message #74119 is a reply to message #74117]

Wed, 22 December 2010 05:06

wlandsman
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On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:49:30 PM UTC-5, Marc Buie wrote:
> Wayne -
>
> Why can't this be handled with
>
> dexp=sxpar(hdr,'D*DEXP')
>
> sxpar already handles
>
> naxis=sxpar(hdr,'NAXIS*')
>
> It seems to me that this is a simple extension of what sxpar already does.

Well, there is a FITS convention for reserved keyword names followed by sequential integers (e.g. NAXIS1, NAXIS2, NAXIS3... ), where (with one exception) you can be sure that the returned values will all be of the same type (in this case integers). But for a general wildcard (e.g. 'D*EXP') the returned values might be a mixture of strings, integers and floats. That is why Paulo's list/hash approach seems preferable this case. --Wayne

P.S. The one exception for reserved keyword names is TSCALi for converting 16 bit integers in a binary table to double/float. In some cases TSCALi returns a float and in other cases it returns a double. That is why MRDFITS currently has a limitation of requiring either all conversions to float or all conversions to double. In some other FITS routines I get around this limitation by using pointers, but it is a pain. It is a nice application for the new LIST datatype.

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		Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header By: penteado on Wed, 22 December 2010 11:44
		Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header By: Gray on Wed, 22 December 2010 05:45
		Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header By: Gray on Wed, 22 December 2010 05:40
		Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header By: wlandsman on Wed, 22 December 2010 05:06
		Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header By: penteado on Tue, 21 December 2010 20:50
		Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header By: Marc Buie on Tue, 21 December 2010 19:49
		Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header By: penteado on Tue, 21 December 2010 17:11
		Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 December 2010 15:38
		Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header By: Gray on Tue, 21 December 2010 15:00
		Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header By: wlandsman on Tue, 21 December 2010 14:59
		Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 December 2010 14:23

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