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Variable name to string [message #25780]

Tue, 17 July 2001 13:50

Chad Bender
Messages: 21
Registered: July 2001

Junior Member

Hello-

Can anyone please point me towards the solution of the following
problem?

Say I want to create a program that will write the contents of a named
array to a
file of the same name. This could be accomplished by having the program
prompt
the user for both the variable name (getting the array by reference) and
the file name
(getting the string naming the output file), and the user just puts the
same
thing twice. However, I would like to be able to do it so the user only
has one prompt.
The program asks what variable should be output, the user gives the
variable name,
and somehow the program is able to get a string with contents equivalent
to the variable
name for use in opening the output file.

Seems like it should be an easy problem, but for the life of me I can't
figure it out.

In case it matters, I'm running IDL 5.4 under RedHat Linux 6.2.

Thanks
Chad Bender
Dept of Physics and Astronomy
State University of New York @ Stony Brook

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		Variable name to string By: Chad Bender on Tue, 17 July 2001 13:50
		Re: Variable name to string By: Chad Bender on Wed, 18 July 2001 12:32
		Re: Variable name to string By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 18 July 2001 08:52
		Re: Variable name to string By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 18 July 2001 07:04
		Re: Variable name to string By: R.Bauer on Wed, 18 July 2001 06:16

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