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Wed, 17 April 2002 17:11

Andrew Cool
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Dominik Paul wrote:
>
> Hi NG
>
> for performance tests, we want to run a programm, which is creating a lot of
> big arrays. But after some runs, IDL cant allocate any memory any more.
> Can somebody give me a hint, how to delete a variable?
>
> Thanks
> Dom

Hi Dom,

From David Fanning's site, try this UNDEFINE routine.

Andrew Cool

PRO UNDEFINE, varname
tempvar = SIZE(TEMPORARY(varname))
END

You use it like this:

IDL> a = BYTARR(200,200)
IDL> HELP, a

A BYTE = Array(200, 200)

IDL> UNDEFINE, a
IDL> HELP, a

A UNDEFINED = *Undefined*

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