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Re: Getting error when running a routine using @ in IDL. [message #90165 is a reply to message #90162]

Wed, 04 February 2015 07:25

Phillip Bitzer
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Registered: June 2006

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On Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 5:21:46 AM UTC-6, Fabien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at some point in the script you test for variable "type" being either
> 'BRIGHT','MEDIUM', or 'FAINT'. It seems that at run-time, the variable
> type was something else than those three possibilities.
>
> As a side note, these kind of scripts are quite bad coding practice, IDL
> provides functions, procedures and even classes today ;-)
>
> Cheers

I'll add this too: it's ALWAYS a good idea to include a ELSE clause in the a CASE statement. This is exactly why - when no matches are found.

And, I can't agree with Fabien more: this way of coding is a best messy, and at worse poor coding practice. Just as a practical matter, all those line break/continuation characters would drive me crazy ;-)

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		Getting error when running a routine using @ in IDL. By: msbstar on Wed, 04 February 2015 02:53
		Re: Getting error when running a routine using @ in IDL. By: Fabzi on Wed, 04 February 2015 03:21
		Re: Getting error when running a routine using @ in IDL. By: msbstar on Wed, 04 February 2015 05:08
		Re: Getting error when running a routine using @ in IDL. By: Phillip Bitzer on Wed, 04 February 2015 07:25

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