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Re: Non-intuitive result with !Null in Where() [message #85616 is a reply to message #85610]

Wed, 21 August 2013 16:51

Heinz Stege
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Registered: January 2003

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On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:42:25 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Argall wrote:

> This is not what I expected. If there are no elements, how can "count" be non-zero? I was hoping that Where() would return !Null and "count" would be 0.
>
> IDL> print, n_elements(!Null)
> 0
> IDL> print, where(!Null ne 0, count)
> 0
> IDL> print, count
> 1
> IDL> print, where(!Null ne 0, count, /NULL)
> 0
> IDL> print, count
> 1
> IDL> print, !Null[0]
> % Expression must be an array in this context: !NULL.
> IDL> print, (!Null)[0]
> % Variable is undefined: <UNDEFINED>.
>
>
> The Where function is telling me I can access !Null at element 0, but I cannot.
>
This is not true. In your words, the Where function is telling you,
that the expression !null ne 0 has one element, which is not equal 0.
And the position of this element is 0.

IDL> expr=!null ne 0
IDL> help,expr[0]
<Expression> BYTE = 1

Heinz

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		Non-intuitive result with !Null in Where() By: Matthew Argall on Wed, 21 August 2013 09:42
		Re: Non-intuitive result with !Null in Where() By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 August 2013 09:48
		Re: Non-intuitive result with !Null in Where() By: Matthew Argall on Wed, 21 August 2013 10:52
		Re: Non-intuitive result with !Null in Where() By: Heinz Stege on Wed, 21 August 2013 16:51

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