Re: NaN values

["Klaus Scipal" <kscipal(at)ipf.tuwien.ac.at>]

try

new_vec=[[vec1],[vec2]]
new_vec=TOTAL(new_vec,2,/nan)

klaus


Antonio Caetano Vaz Caltabiano <caetano@soc.soton.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> I need your expertise.
>
> I have two vectors (vec1 and vec2). Some of the values of vec1 are set
> as NaN. I want to sum each point of vec1 with its correspondent point in
> vec2, ignoring NaN.
>
> If I just use:
>
> new_vec=vec1+vec2, I have NaN's in the new_vec correspondent point to
> vec1.
>
> If I use "total" (new_vec=total(vec1,vec2,/nan)  IDL tells me that
> should be a scalar in the context.
>
> Is there any other way to ignore the NaN's?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Antonio
>
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