IDL: Accessing struct fields using field names stored in variables? - struct

If I have a struct with a fieldname 'fieldname', is it possible to access the data in that field using only the variable?
ie.
x = 'fieldname'
is it possible to do
data = struct.(x) in some way? I want to use the string in x as the field name.

Yes, this is possible using the TAG_NAMES function:
tnames=TAG_NAMES(struct)
tindex=WHERE(STRCMP(tnames,'fieldname') EQ 1)
data=struct.(tindex)
The call to TAG_NAMES returns an array of strings representing the tags defined in struct.
The WHERE statement returns the index in tnames of a string matching 'fieldname'.
Finally, the index is passed to the struct.(tindex) operation, which extracts a field by
its numeric tag index.
Of course, in a real application you'd want to check whether tindex was successfully
matched to something, otherwise IDL will choke on the structure lookup with an index
of -1.

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I created an array inside my own class in nodejs to store real values.
this.values = new Array();
and almost every second a new value is pushed to this array.
this.values.push(Number(dataset.c).toFixed(4));
Finaly I have a function where I need to provide the array in the argument list to do bollinger band calculation. This function need an array filled with real or integer values but in my array every value is stored as an string.
Is it possible to change this storage behaviour or how can I 'typecast' all the values in this array?
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did the job.

Returning a Pandas DataFrame Index as a String

I want to return the index of my DataFrame as a string. I am using this commandp_h = peak_hour_df.index.astype(str).str.zfill(4) It is not working, I am getting this result: Index(['1645'], dtype='object', name I need it to return the string '1645' How do I accomplish this?
In short:
do p_h = list(peak_hour_df.index.astype(str).str.zfill(4)). This will return a list and then you can index it.
In more detail:
When you do peak_hour_df.index.astype(str), as you see, the dtype is already an object (string), so that job is done. Note this is the type of the contents; not of the object itself. Also I am removing .str.zfill(4) as this is additional and does not change the nature of the problem or the retuning type.
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How can I use a specified order of strings to index from a cell array?

I am trying to index from a cell aray of a number of potential reference files to use for a comparison. The comparison files have distinct parts of their file names that I'd like to use to specify a single reference file.
However, I'm only able to return reference files that contain the three distinct parts, in any order. How can I enforce the order?
Example:
The comparison file is:
deg_baseFileName = "Test1_female_44k_70dBA_babble7ch_1sp_20k_00dBA_48k"
I use strsplit to break the filename into parts:
deg_parts = strsplit(deg_baseFileName, "_");
The distinguishing parts are:
deg_parts(2), deg_parts(4), deg_parts(8)
In this case: "female", "70dBA", "00dBA" - in that order.
I use these functions to identify and index with the distinguishing parts:
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out = cellfun(fun,strToFind,'UniformOutput',false);
idx = all(horzcat(out{:}),2);
However, the index returns two values from my reference file cell array:
Ref_female_44k_00dBA_babble7ch_1sp_20k_70dBA_48k.wav
Ref_female_44k_70dBA_babble7ch_1sp_20k_00dBA_48k.wav
Both contain the distinguishing parts, but only the second in the correct order.
Is there a way I can enforce the order in my out call?
Thanks!
In the simplest case, where the comparison and reference files only differ in their first part, you can use strrep:
refFile = strrep(deg_baseFileName, 'Test1', 'Ref');
If you know what the other parts of the file name will be, and they are the same for all the reference files but differ from the comparison file, you can just use sprintf to create your file name:
refFile = sprintf('Ref_%s_44k_%s_babble7ch_1sp_20k_%s_48k.wav', ...
deg_parts(2), deg_parts(4), deg_parts(8));
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expr = sprintf('Ref_%s_[^_]+_%s_[^_]+_[^_]+_[^_]+_%s_[^_]+.wav', ...
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I am attempting to write an algorithm that selects a specific reference standard (vector) as a function of temperature. The temperature values are stored in a structure ( procspectra(i).temperature ). My reference standards are stored in another structure ( standards.interp.zeroed.ClOxxx ) where xxx are numbers such as 200, 210, 220, etc. I have built the rounding construct and paste it below.
for i = 1:length(procspectra);
if mod(-procspectra(i).temperature,10) > mod(procspectra(i).temperature,10);
%if mod(-) > mod(+) round down, else round up
tempvector(i) = procspectra(i).temperature - mod(procspectra(i).temperature,10);
else
tempvector(i) = procspectra(i).temperature + mod(-procspectra(i).temperature,10);
end
clostd = strcat('standards.interp.zeroed.ClO',num2str(tempvector(i)));
end
This construct works well. Now, I have built a string which is identical to the name of the vector I want to invoke, but I'm uncertain how to actually call the vector given that this is encoded as a string. Ideally I want to do something within the for-loop like:
parameters(i).standards.ClOstandard = clostd
where I actually am assigning that parameter structure to be the same as the vector I have saved in the standards structure I have previously generated (and not just a string)
Could anyone help out?
Don't construct clostd like that (containing the full variable name), make it contain only the last field name instead:
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struc.Cl0123
struc.('Cl0123')
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Get real bool value from YamlStream

I use YamlDotnet to parse a yaml stream to a dictionary of string object via the YamlStream.
The YamlMappingType, YamlSequenceNode and YamlScalarNode are used in order to convert the value to a dictionary, a list or a string.
But I need to get a real boolean value instead of the string equivalent, and for that I use
bool.TryParse(value.ToString(), out valueBool)
value veing a YamlNode.
Is there a better way to do that?
Perhaps another child type of YamlNode?
EDIT:
I don't know the content of the YAML file, I just want to get a dictionary with his values.
Instead of doing the parsing manually, you should use the Deserializer class, which will convert a YAML document into an object graph.
var deserializer = new Deserializer();
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