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Feature request: printing very long arrays [message #91127]

Mon, 08 June 2015 05:48

Helder Marchetto
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Registered: November 2011

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Hi,
I don't know if this happens only to me, but sometimes while debugging I like to look at what's inside a variable. Most of the times I use the command:

help, variable

and sometimes

print, variable

However, sometimes I'm too eager to look at what's hidden under the name and I go directly for the print option. And if I'm so stupid to do that on array of say 4096 x 4096 elements... well it takes a while and the only way to stop this useless overflow of data is to kill the IDL process.

Is there a chance we a print command that looks like this:

IDL> print, veryBigVariable
[ 0 1 ... 999998 999999]

and
IDL> print, veryBigVariable, /fullPrint
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65
....

well you got the point.

Any chance of this showing up in the future?

Cheers,
Helder

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		Feature request: printing very long arrays By: Helder Marchetto on Mon, 08 June 2015 05:48
		Re: Feature request: printing very long arrays By: optiksguy on Tue, 09 June 2015 06:43
		Re: Feature request: printing very long arrays By: Lajos Foldy on Tue, 09 June 2015 08:57
		Re: Feature request: printing very long arrays By: Helder Marchetto on Wed, 10 June 2015 00:56
		Re: Feature request: printing very long arrays By: wlandsman on Tue, 09 June 2015 10:03
		Re: Feature request: printing very long arrays By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 23 June 2015 11:22
		Re: Feature request: printing very long arrays By: Helder Marchetto on Wed, 24 June 2015 04:13

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