dv - Declare Variables Bob Wilson
EXAMPLES:
dv "flux(10) peak" s:"name" Declare an array of 10 reals called
flux, a single real peak and a string
called name.
dv n:".flux(10) .peak" s:".name" Same as above if you prefer this style.
dv n:".flux(10) .peak" s:".name" l: Same as above, but this may only be
done from within a macro and the
variables will only be visible in that
macro (and will disappear when the macro
completes).
c .peak=.stak(.expch) Set peak to the value at the expected
channel in stack 1.
p .flux(5)=5.5 Set the 5th element of flux
DESCRIPTION:
'dv' allows users to declare new variables in Comb. The values of
declared variables are accessed by the usual "." method. By default the
variables will be global in scope and may be used in the same way that
header variables are. With the 'l:' flag, the declared variables
become local to the macro in which they are defined. They would hide
similarly named global or scan variables. You may define both string and
numeric variables in the same command. Within the name strings, names
may be separated by spaces and/or commas and may optionally be preceded
by a period.
Numeric variables are initialized to zero and strings to an empty string
when declared. Re-declaration of the same name will re-initialize the
variables and will allow array sizes to change. Switching a variable
from string to numeric or vice versa will trigger a warning, but can be done.
Names can be up to 63 chars and strings can be any length, but the parser
starts complaining at a length of 8192.
Scan and stack header variables are reserve words, as are the scan and
stack data variables ndat() and stak(), and the special variable DR (DRAGON).
These predefined values are also reserve words:
Name Value Type Description
---- ------------------------- ------ ---------------
PI 3.14159265358979323846 double you know, pi.
AMU 1.660540E-24 float atomic mass unit
C 2.99792458E10 double speed o' light in cm/s
E 2.7182818284590452354 double natural log base
G 6.67259E-8 float gravitational constant, cm^3/gm/s^2
K 1.380658E-16 float Boltzmann constant, erg/K
PC 3.085678021E18 double 1 parsec in cm
MSUN 1.989E33 float 1 solar mass in grams
The value of fundamental physical constants comes from the NIST web site:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html
You can override any value with "c" or "p", of course.
Finally, you can't use "#" or "$" in a variable name because it confuses
the parser.
This document was last updated on
Tue Oct 17 16:24:05 EDT 2000
by Marc W. Pound.