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Re: Help - IDL Basic Question [message #93149 is a reply to message #93146]

Tue, 03 May 2016 01:20

Markus Schmassmann
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Registered: April 2016

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type the following: help, fc
this tells you whether it's a vector or scalar

The answers to the other questions depend on what function your calling,
it's impossible for us here to answer without more information.

On 03.05.2016 at 08:11 wrote kubota:
> As a beginner with IDL, I am trying to understand several lines contained in an IDL program relating to vectors.
>
> The first line I don't understand is:
>
> fc = call_function(fun,xc)
>
> Here, xc is a vector.
> Is fc a scalar or vector, being that xc is a vector?
> If fc is a scalar, which element of xc is being used for the function calculation?
> If fc is a vector, does that mean that the vector fc is filled with all the function evaluations of the x values in xc?

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