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Re: How to send a CHARACTER to a C/C++/FORTRAN function via CALL_EXTERNAL? [message #83242 is a reply to message #83241]

Wed, 13 February 2013 21:08

Matt Francis
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On Thursday, 14 February 2013 05:44:34 UTC+11, Brian J. Daniel wrote:
> A character is one byte. You could try the byte data type defined with the appropriate ASCII value.
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> On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 8:36:16 PM UTC-5, Bogdanovist wrote:
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>> I'm having trouble getting a CALL_EXTERNAL call to work. I think the issue is the requirement to send a CHARACTER*1. To be specific, I'm trying to call dgels from LAPACK, see here
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>> I know from previous experience that you have to be careful to get all arguments to CALL_EXTERNAL exactly right, making IDL INTs into LONGs, making sure to get single/double precision etc correct. However this one I can't seem to crack. It doesn't surprise me that the IDL STRING is not equivalent to CHARACTER, but how can I send this correctly?

Thanks! I've tried using:

trans='N'
c_trans=BYTE(N[0])

but my IDL session still dies when I send this to the routine. There may be other problems with the other arguments though. Do you know if BYTE() will assign the correct ASCII Byte code or do I need to look that up and assign it directly (numerically)?

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		Re: How to send a CHARACTER to a C/C++/FORTRAN function via CALL_EXTERNAL? By: Lajos Foldy on Thu, 14 February 2013 01:25
		Re: How to send a CHARACTER to a C/C++/FORTRAN function via CALL_EXTERNAL? By: Matt Francis on Wed, 13 February 2013 21:08
		Re: How to send a CHARACTER to a C/C++/FORTRAN function via CALL_EXTERNAL? By: Brian Daniel on Wed, 13 February 2013 10:44

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