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Re: Feature request: printing very long arrays [message #91147 is a reply to message #91127]

Tue, 09 June 2015 06:43

optiksguy
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Registered: March 2005

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On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 8:48:47 AM UTC-4, Helder wrote:
> 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

+1 to this request, as I have made the same mistake too many times to count. I would guess there are backwards compatibility issues here though.

John

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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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