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bug in var_to_dt [message #12093]

Fri, 26 June 1998 00:00

wmc
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Registered: February 1995

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There is a bug in var_to_dt (idl 5.1).

Try this:
a=var_to_dt(1980) ; Fine
a=var_to_dt([1980]) ; Fails
a=var_to_dt([1980,1981]) ; Fine

Why? Because var_to_dt "cleverly" looks to see if its input has more than one
element - if so it recursively calls itself with the individual elements. But
if it is given a one-element array as input it then uncleverly fails. The fix
is to patch the code to look at (size(yyyy))(0) to see if it is an array, I think.

- William

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