Re: string manipulation

["Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield(at)niwa.cri.nz>]

"JD Smith" <jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu> wrote in message
3A9C2CF5.F632B1AF@astro.cornell.edu">news:3A9C2CF5.F632B1AF@astro.cornell.edu...
> [...]
> new=strmid(key,0,transpose(p1))+'50'+strmid(key,tranpose(p2))
>
> The key is putting the threading vector on its head, as a column
> vector.

Aaaaagh! The major reason I hate Matlab is all the "Have I got a row vector
or a column vector?" rubbish! I feel like picking it up & shaking it &
saying, "No, it's not a matrix, it's not a column vector, it's not a row
vector, it's just a list of numbers. It's not dimensioned (n,1) and it's not
dimensioned (1,n), it's dimensioned (n). You can print it vertically, you
can print it horizontally, I don't care, it's just a list of numbers!"

And now JD shows us how to confuse ourselves with row vectors and column
vectors in IDL! As if HISTOGRAM wasn't enough. JD, I call down a curse on
you, and your children, and your children's chil.....[falls from chair in
paroxysm of rage]

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Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz  http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research