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Dumb Dumb Question [message #13571]

Tue, 17 November 1998 00:00

rosentha
Messages: 23
Registered: November 1994

Junior Member

This may be really stupid, but is there a way around the following
feature:

pro x_test,x=x,x2=x2
if n_elements(x) ne 0 then print, 'x=',x
if n_elements(x2) ne 0 then print, 'x2=',x2
end

when I run it with
> x_test,x=1
I get
% Ambiguous keyword abbreviation: X.
% Execution halted at: $MAIN$

Does this mean no IDL procedure will ever work if one keyword is a left
substring of another keyword? Can I force IDL to interpret the "x" as "x"
and not an ambiguous abbreviation for "x2"?

--
Colin Rosenthal
High Altitude Observatory
Boulder, Colorado
rosentha@hao.ucar.edu

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