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Re: Name of arrays [message #79327 is a reply to message #79269]

Tue, 21 February 2012 08:38

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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On Feb 21, 10:12 am, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
> Craig Markwardt writes:
>> No, structures are easy. You can add as many elements as you want and
>> they can be any size that you want.
>
>> ; First you create a dummy structure, or add some overall "metadata"
>> information if you want.
>> my_struct = {file_date:'2012-01-03'} ;; Whatever you want
>
>> ; Then add as many data points as you want.
>> my_struct = create_struct(my_struct, TEMPERATURE+MONTH(0), fltarr(28))
>> my_struct = create_struct(my_struct, TEMPERATURE+MONTH(1), fltarr(30))
>> ...
>> my_struct = create_struct(my_struct, TEMPERATURE+MONTH(11),
>> fltarr(30))
>
>> Pointers introduce their own overhead of allocating, managing and de-
>> allocating them. Structures are totally extensible and have basically
>> no mental overhead.
>
>> Later on, you can retrieve the contents with TAG_NAMES(), and the
>> "structure array" notation my_struct.(N).
>
> See, what did I tell you? Structures are totally inflexible,
> unless you know what you are doing with them. ;-)

It's just a matter of which foot you shoot. :-)

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		Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Sun, 19 February 2012 04:30
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Wed, 22 February 2012 08:34
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Thu, 23 February 2012 03:40
		Re: Name of arrays By: Brian Wolven on Wed, 22 February 2012 08:22
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Wed, 22 February 2012 05:28
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Wed, 22 February 2012 02:04
		Re: Name of arrays By: penteado on Thu, 23 February 2012 07:08
		Re: Name of arrays By: Brian Wolven on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:53
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:44
		Re: Name of arrays By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:35
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:33
		Re: Name of arrays By: penteado on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:27
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:21
		Re: Name of arrays By: penteado on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:02
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Thu, 23 February 2012 16:12
		Re: Name of arrays By: penteado on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:11
		Re: Name of arrays By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:09
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 14:06
		Re: Name of arrays By: penteado on Tue, 21 February 2012 13:58
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 13:43
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Tue, 21 February 2012 12:36
		Re: Name of arrays By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 21 February 2012 08:38
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 07:12
		Re: Name of arrays By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 21 February 2012 06:49
		Re: Name of arrays By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 21 February 2012 06:50
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Tue, 21 February 2012 06:35
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Tue, 21 February 2012 05:36
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Tue, 21 February 2012 04:45
		Re: Name of arrays By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 20 February 2012 19:17
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 February 2012 12:21
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Thu, 23 February 2012 12:17
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 February 2012 11:16
		Re: Name of arrays By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 23 February 2012 10:32
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Thu, 23 February 2012 10:14
		Re: Name of arrays By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 February 2012 09:30
		Re: Name of arrays By: penteado on Thu, 23 February 2012 09:19
		Re: Name of arrays By: Israel Rodriguez Herm on Thu, 23 February 2012 09:08

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