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Re: string conversion & integer [message #56634]

Thu, 08 November 2007 15:59

rkombiyil
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Registered: March 2006

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On Nov 9, 8:45 am, David Fanning <da...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> metachronist writes:
>> Thank you for your reply. I am glad the reply was gentle ;-)
>
> Geez, a guy has an argument with his wife and the whole
> world holds it against him. I SAID I was sorry! :-(
>
>> This is really weird! And I can't figure out what might be wrong. I
>> pass dd_d via call to a procedure, wherein it gets stored as e_dd. It
>> is getting passed alright, but I try to do the conversion within the
>> procedure and it fails. Am I doing something so fundamentally wrong
>> here?!
>
> Ah, this is a FAMOUS gotcha! See this article:
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips/noidea.html
>
> Change this line:
>
> print,where(x.dd eq fix(e_dd))
>
> To this,
>
> print,where(x.dd eq fix(e_dd[0]))
>
> and you will get what you expect. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/

Thank you David, for taking time off to reply. That solves the problem
-- at least for now :) Onward to more generalizations!
Cheers,
~r

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		Re: string conversion & integer By: rkombiyil on Thu, 08 November 2007 15:59
		Re: string conversion & integer By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 November 2007 15:45
		Re: string conversion & integer By: rkombiyil on Thu, 08 November 2007 15:27
		Re: string conversion & integer By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 November 2007 09:37

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