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Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) [message #85348 is a reply to message #79688]

Sun, 28 July 2013 12:32

Lajos Foldy
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Registered: December 2011

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On Sunday, July 28, 2013 6:13:18 AM UTC+2, bobnn...@gmail.com wrote:

> I will say that the inability of accessing directly into hashes and lists (by reference, not copy) is so disappointing that I am moving away from IDL. So if you found a way around this it would be very nice.

LIST is a pointer array in disguise. You can get a copy of this array and manipulate list elements directly:

IDL> l=list(1,2,3)
IDL> a=l.idl_container::get(/all)
IDL> print, l
1
2
3
IDL> *a[1]=123
IDL> print, l
1
123
3

regards,
Lajos

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		Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: JDS on Thu, 22 March 2012 14:58
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: Lajos Foldy on Sun, 28 July 2013 12:32
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: m_schellens on Mon, 29 July 2013 01:46
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: Lajos Foldy on Mon, 29 July 2013 02:44
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: m_schellens on Mon, 29 July 2013 04:24
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: m_schellens on Mon, 29 July 2013 04:25
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: Lajos Foldy on Mon, 29 July 2013 11:32
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: David Fanning on Mon, 29 July 2013 11:37
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: m_schellens on Mon, 29 July 2013 15:46
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: Lajos Foldy on Tue, 30 July 2013 01:55
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: m_schellens on Tue, 30 July 2013 04:46
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: Bob[4] on Mon, 29 July 2013 07:34
		Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) By: m_schellens on Mon, 29 July 2013 01:12

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