Next: ARY_FTYPE - Obtain the full data type of an array
Up: Routine Descriptions
Previous: ARY_FIND - Find an array in an HDS structure and import it into the ARY_ system
ARY_FORM
- Obtain the storage form of an array
- Description:
- The routine returns the storage form of an array as an upper-case
character string (e.g. 'SIMPLE').
- Invocation:
- CALL ARY_FORM( IARY, FORM, STATUS )
- Arguments:
-
IARY = INTEGER (Given)
-
Array identifier.
-
FORM = CHARACTER
(
) (Returned)
-
Storage form of the array.
-
STATUS = INTEGER (Given and Returned)
-
The global status.
- Notes:
- The symbolic constant ARY__SZFRM may be used for declaring the
length of a character variable to hold the storage form of an
array. This constant is defined in the include file ARY_PAR.
- At present, the ARY_ routines only support "primitive", "scaled",
"simple" and "delta" arrays, so only the values 'PRIMITIVE', 'SCALED'
'DELTA' and 'SIMPLE' can be returned.
Next: ARY_FTYPE - Obtain the full data type of an array
Up: Routine Descriptions
Previous: ARY_FIND - Find an array in an HDS structure and import it into the ARY_ system
ARY [2.5ex
Starlink User Note 11
R.F. Warren-Smith & D.S. Berry
19th July 2012
E-mail:starlink@jiscmail.ac.uk
Copyright © 2013 Science and Technology Facilities Council