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--- internal:administration:idl [2026/03/20 19:58] – [contour] jan
+++ internal:administration:idl [2026/07/18 07:57] (current) – [type setting] jan
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   * As matrix operations are faster than for-loops this may speed up your code a lot ...
+  * Alternatively one may use **rebin** , but note that rebin uses bilinear interpolation (sample=0) or nearest neigbor (sample=1) and accordingly might be a bit slower
+  x = fltarr(Nx)
+  y = fltarr(Ny)
+  xx = rebin( x, Nx, Ny, sample=1 )
+  yy = transpose(rebin( y, Ny, Nx ))
 ==== procedure names ====
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   ss[0] = 'wind speed'
   ss[1] = 'm/s'
+An array of strings can be also be splitted element by element, but only from Idl version 8. onwards.
+The result will be a  [[https://www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/docs/list.html|LIST-Object]] , which might be converted to an array by using its method [[https://www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/docs/list.html#ToArrayMethod|List::toArray()]] (note the brackets!).
+  s = [ 'a=b', 'c=d', 'e=f' ]
+  sL = STRSPLIT( s, '=', /ex, count=N )
+  sA = (STRSPLIT( s, '=', /ex, count=N )).toArray(  ) ; equal to sA = sL.toArray()
+Result %%sL%% will be a %%LIST%% object with N elements, and every entry of sL an array of strings with elements accorrding to the result fo strsplit.
+Parameter %%N%% will be an array with the number of splits that could be made per element.
+The conversion %%sL.toArray()%% works only if every entry in sL has the same number of elements.
+The %%sA%% array would allow you to search for certain values in the array by using the where functions - eg:
+  ia = where( sA[*,0] eq 'a', Na )
+But you could also try to use the %%WHERE%% method of the %%LIST%% object ...
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-filenames can be separated into path and name by
+filenames can be separated into path and name with
-  file_dirname( <path to file> )
+  f_dn = file_dirname( <path to file> )
-  file_basename( <path to file> )
+  f_bn = file_basename( <path to file> )
+where the dirname will have no '/' charcater.
+You may use strsplit to strip or get the 'filename extension' - the part of the filename after the last dot:
+  f_ext = (STRSPLIT( f_bn, '.', /ex, count=N ))[N-1]
+  f_bnx = STRJOIN((STRSPLIT( f_bn, '.', /ex, count=N ))[0:N-2],'.')
 ==== formatted output ====
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     xrange = [ 0.5 * hour, 2*1e6 ], $
     /xlog, $
-    xticks = N_ticks-1, $  ; holy IDL - why do you need things like this ?
+    xticks = N_ticks-1, $  ; xticks is the number of //intervals// not ticks!,  holy IDL - why do you need things like this ?
     xtickname = x_tiknams, $
     xtickv    = x_tikvals, $
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 The following commands are available (see also IDL help [[https://www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/docs/Embedded_Formatting_Comm.html|Embedded Formatting Commands]])((find it under 'fonts' in the help)):
-  * supersuperscript  !U ('Up' faktor 0.62)
+  * superscript  !U ('Up' faktor 0.62 or -38%)
-  * subscript    !D ('Down' faktor 0.62)
+  * subscript    !D ('Down' faktor 0.62 or -38%)
-  * subsubscript !L ('Low' faktor 0.62)
+  * subsubscript !L ('Low' faktor 0.62 or -38%)
-  * index        !I (faktor 0.44)
+  * index        !I (faktor 0.44 or -56%)
-  * exponent     !E (faktor 0.44)
+  * exponent     !E (faktor 0.44 or -56%)
   * back to Normal !N
-  * numerator position !A ('above' division line)
+  * numerator !A ('above' division line)
-  * denominator position !B ('below' division line)
+  * denominator !B ('below' division line)
   * new line !C ('carriage return')
   * special characters !Z(b1[,b2[,...]]) where b1,b2,... are the 16 bit hexadecimal unicode codes of the desired character[s]
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   * exclamation mark !!
-Most of these commands only affect the vertical position except for %%!R%% which restrores also the horizontal position.
+Most of these commands only affect the vertical position except for %%!R%% which restores also the horizontal position.
+The exponent (%%!E%%) and index (%%!I%%) charactersizes are really tiny, better use the %%!U%% and %%!D%%.
+To test you may use
+  xyouts, 100,100, 'look!S!Uup!N!R!Ddown!N!Llow!N do!S!Iidx!N!R!Eexp!N !S!Anumerator!R!Bdemnominator!N', /device, charsize=1
 Examples:
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 If you want to interpolate only over certain dimensions they must be the last ones. You may use transpose to rearrange. Lets assume you have an array depending on x, y and time, i.e. z=fltarr(Nx,Ny,Nt) and you want to interpolate to certain x and y coordinates you can do this as follows:
-  z_ipol = transpose( interpolate( transpose(z_org,[2,0,1]) , ix_ipol , iy_ipol , /grid  ), [1,2,0] )
+  z_ipol = transpose( interpolate( transpose(z_org,[2,0,1]) , ix_ipol , iy_ipol , /grid, MISSING=!VALUES.f_nan  ), [1,2,0] )
+The /GRID flag allow to use different sizes for ix_ipol and iy_ipol and the MISSING keyword sets values of z_ipol outside the ranges of z_org to the missing value (no extrapolation).