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Re: help & help,/structure [message #75709 is a reply to message #75675]

Thu, 14 April 2011 20:16

R.G.Stockwell
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Registered: October 2004

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> "Demitri" wrote in message
> news:4d9bb075$0$20476$c3e8da3$eb767761@news.astraweb.com...
> Hi,
> I've just been bitten by this new "feature". I have a script that calls
> 'help', but now with 8.0 it dumps the full structure to the screen.
> This output is longer than the screen so the effective result is that
> my script stops until I manually hit a spacebar to continue. Truly
> annoying when I had to do this about 200 times today.
> Can I turn this off? Barring this, is there a way I can code this so
> that it will work as before if I run IDL 7 or 8?
> Cheers,
> Demitri
> New York University
> (Wow, I managed to write that in a fairly civilized manner!)
> ---

ha, yeah it is a bit annoying, for help of an array of structures.

I have found myself adding a second garbage (non-existent) variable, which
makes it work.

help, mystructarr, a

where a does not exist.

IDL> help, star,a
star STRUCT = -> <Anonymous> Array[54]
A UNDEFINED = <Undefined>

cheers,
bob

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