On Apr 2, 6:21 pm, Spon <christoph.b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 5:34 pm, David Fanning <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Spon writes:
> > > As I'm currently in the grip of evangelical fervour induced by a
> > > re-reading of JD Smith's (in)famous oration -
> > >http://www.dfanning.com/tips/forloops.html-I've
discovered that you
> > > can replace the FOR loop by using TRANSPOSE; like this:
>
> > > Print, Transpose(StrSplit(!PATH, Path_Sep(/SEARCH_PATH), /Extract))
>
> > JD, of course, is famous, but hardly anyone reads (well,
> > finishes) his articles. I, on the other hand, am not
> > famous at all, but a lot of people have read the nonsense
> > I've written. The difference between us is the
> > energy differential given off by the human brain when
> > they read a line of code like that compared to my humble
> > PrintPath program. :-)
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > David
> > --
> > David Fanning, Ph.D.
> > Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> > Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
> > Se****e ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
>
> Butbutbut...
>
> theSeparator = Path_Sep(/SEARCH_PATH)
> theStringArray = (!Path, theSeparator, /EXTRACT)
> theStringColumnArray = Transpose(theStringArray)
> Print, theStringColumnArray
>
> ...and suddenly you'd be hard pushed to spot JD's influence at all ;-)
>
> I think you're selling yourself short, David!
>
> Chris
Grr... this is what I get for being a smart alec I guess.
This:
> theStringArray = (!Path, theSeparator, /EXTRACT)
Should of course read:
theStringArray = StrSplit(!Path, theSeparator, /EXTRACT)
:-(
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