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Re: SAVE again [message #71019]

Tue, 25 May 2010 23:54

Gray
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Registered: February 2010

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On May 25, 9:18 pm, fgg <fabioguimaraesgoncal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 25, 5:45 pm, pp <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On May 25, 9:05 pm, fgg <fabioguimaraesgoncal...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Is it possible to simplify this line:
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>>> save, v1, v2, v3, v4, v5,...,v100, filename = 'xxx..sav'
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>>> by using something like this:
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>>> for j=1,100 do print, 'v'+strtrim(string(j),1)+','
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>>> ... so I don't have to write down "v" a hundred times?
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>> Possible, yes. But that is not your problem. Your code really should
>> not have 100 variables called vxxx. It is a nightmare to read and to
>> edit.
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>> Why don't you put all that stuff into a single array?
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> Hi pp,
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> Yes, I know... this is a bad example. I don't actually have 100
> variables called vxxx. Just wanted to know if there is a way to pass
> the variable names to be saved other than typing each name and passing
> them as parameters on the line. I think CMSAVE will do it... thanks,
> Craig!

You can automate actions with multiple variations of the same filename
by using EXECUTE. Thus, in this example, you would want to do
something like:
vars = strjoin('v'+strtrim(indgen(100)+1,1),',')
fname = string(39B)+'xxx.sav'+string(39B)
status = EXECUTE('save, '+vars+', filename='+fname)

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		Re: SAVE again By: Gray on Tue, 25 May 2010 23:54
		Re: SAVE again By: fgg on Tue, 25 May 2010 18:18
		Re: SAVE again By: penteado on Tue, 25 May 2010 17:45
		Re: SAVE again By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 25 May 2010 17:35
		Re: SAVE again By: Carsten Lechte on Wed, 26 May 2010 01:45

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