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Re: Fuzzy searching of FITS header [message #74128 is a reply to message #74126]

Tue, 21 December 2010 14:23

David Fanning
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Gray writes:

> Does anyone have a routine that allows for fuzzy searching of FITS
> header keywords? For example, I have a header where I want the value
> of the following keywords:
>
> D001DEXP
> D002DEXP
> ...
>
> I don't know a priori how many of them there are, and it would be nice
> to be able to have a parsing program that would let me give 'DEXP' as
> a search string and return all of them. Any suggestions?

StrPos?

> I know I
> could construct something that did searches for up to 1000 keywords
> (000-999) and aborted when it didn't find anything, but that would
> defeat the purpose of IDL vectorization, wouldn't it?

It's already vectorized! :-)

Cheers,

David

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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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