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Re: Programatically create structure [message #40443]

Wed, 04 August 2004 08:56

Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003

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> You can use CREATE_STRUCT:
>
> mystruct = CREATE_STRUCT( variable_name, $
> variable_data )
>
> is what I use in my netCDF reader - where I have may have no idea
> beforehand what the variable name is or what the variable data type is.
> That information comes from the netCDF read... or your database query.
>
> You can append stuff to the structure also,
>
> mystruct = CREATE_STRUCT( mystruct, $
> next_variable_name, $
> nest_variable_data )
>
> but I don't know how efficient that is for large datasets, or if you can
> do it for named structures.

Thanks. That's exactly what I needed. I know I read a ton about
CREATE_STRUCT() last night, but apparently it didn't sink in. I blame
it on me actually attempting to do IDL programming at 2:00AM. Or maybe
I can blame it on the Mountain Dew wearing off an hour or so before that.

-mike

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