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Re: pv-wave, strings-to-function_names [message #4805]

Thu, 10 August 1995 00:00

rep2857
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Registered: December 1994

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In article <40d1ml$vi7@seralph9.essex.ac.uk>,
Pearson J E <jepear@essex.ac.uk> wrote:
> In pvwave how do convert a string into a function name?
>
> What I am doing is passing the name of a funtion to another function as a
> string. What I cannot do is then use this string as a function name in the new
> function.
>

Cc'd to jepear@essex.ac.uk

It sounds like the Execute() function is what you're after.
WAVE> cmd = 'plot, indgen(20)'
WAVE> info, cmd
CMD STRING = 'plot, indgen(20)'
WAVE> status = Execute(cmd)

status will be either 1 or 0, respectively, depending on success or
failure of the command.

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