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Re: name a variable with number [message #87452 is a reply to message #87449]

Tue, 04 February 2014 05:31

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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sid writes:

> The main problem is, I will have a resultant array of
> n=dblarr(i,j)
> j=25,
> but i is varying say around 800 to 900.
> so i should name it in a for loop like,
> n1=n(800,1)
> n2=n(830,2)
> n3=n(840,3)
> .
> .
> .
> like this it has to go till 25.
> Finally I have to save this n1,n2,n3,....,n25 into separate files,
> like
> openw,2,'test.dat'
> printf,2,n1
> close,2
> till n25
> So I have to find a way to save in a variable which varies like n1,n2,...,n25

You want to use a list, rather than an array. The list will allow you to
store vectors of various lengths, and you can then treat the list
variable as if it were an array when saving the data, etc.

Cheers,

David
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		name a variable with number By: gunvicsin11 on Tue, 04 February 2014 02:35
		Re: name a variable with number By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 04 February 2014 03:59
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 04:16
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 05:31
		Re: name a variable with number By: rjp23 on Tue, 04 February 2014 05:50
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 05:57
		Re: name a variable with number By: Fabzi on Tue, 04 February 2014 06:09
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 06:29
		Re: name a variable with number By: rjp23 on Tue, 04 February 2014 09:28
		Re: name a variable with number By: Fabzi on Tue, 04 February 2014 10:00
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 10:07
		Re: name a variable with number By: rjp23 on Tue, 04 February 2014 11:45
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 11:51
		Re: name a variable with number By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 04 February 2014 06:41

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