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Re: Number of local variables in MAIN [message #7729 is a reply to message #7655]

Fri, 20 December 1996 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Dean Schulze <schulze@cassini.lpl.arizona.edu> writes:

> I got the message
>
> 'Program unit has too many local variables'
>
> while running a series of scripts. 'help' shows 251 local
> variables. The program level is MAIN.
>
> Is there some way to increase the number of local variables?
> I'm running IDL v3.6 on HP-UX 9.05.

There is no way to increase the number of local variables allowed.

There are *lots* of ways to decrease the number of local variables
in your programs, starting with making your programs more modular.
This has the wonderful side-effect of making you a *much* better
IDL programmer automatically. :-)

If it were me, I'd try to run fewer "scripts" and more "programs".

Happy Holidays,

David

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