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Re: creating variables in a FOR loop [message #79111 is a reply to message #79107]

Thu, 02 February 2012 08:13

lecacheux.alain
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On 2 fév, 16:17, wlandsman <wlands...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:53:13 AM UTC-5, singlebinary wrote:
>> 5 'im_'+strtrim(temp,2) = mrdfits(files[i],0,h)
>
> This statement does not create a variable but creates a string containing for example "im_1". You can convert a string to a variable with the execute statement
>
> status = execute("im_" + strtrim(temp,2) + "= mrdfits(files[i],0,h)" )
>
> --Wayne

I rather guess that the compiler simply complains because your left
hand side does not contain a named variable. You cannot store in it,
whatever 'mrdfits' is doing.
Alx.

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		Re: creating variables in a FOR loop By: JDS on Thu, 02 February 2012 12:12
		Re: creating variables in a FOR loop By: lecacheux.alain on Thu, 02 February 2012 08:13
		Re: creating variables in a FOR loop By: wlandsman on Thu, 02 February 2012 07:17
		Re: creating variables in a FOR loop By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 February 2012 07:07
		Re: creating variables in a FOR loop By: Rohit Deshpande on Thu, 02 February 2012 06:57

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