Thanks Milan,
I defined Element as you suggested and created
*data=(Element, 2)*
but
*julia> **data[1].lambda=[1., 2.0]*
*ERROR: type DataType has no field lambda*
Now that I have the structure data how do I access the branch members?
On Sunday, February 1, 2015 at 8:07:51 PM UTC+11, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
>
> Le dimanche 01 février 2015 à 00:35 -0800, alex codoreanu a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > I'm a new Julia user and I'm starting to write a high-level multi data
> > type fits file reader and writer akin to IDL's mwrfits/mrdfits. I got
> > most of the dynamics figured out by I can't quite make a custom
> > structure. For example, I would like something like:
> >
> >
> > element = {name::string, lambda::[float_array, 5000 elements],
> > flux::[float_array, 5000 elements]}
> >
> >
> > structure = replicate(element, 500)
> >
> >
> > where structure inherits the members of element and can be called,
> >
> >
> > structure[1].name = the name of element 1
> > strucutre[1].lambda[1] = the first lambda element of the first
> > structure
> Looks like a composite type would work:
>
> type Element
> name::UTF8String
> lambda::Vector{Float64}
> flux::Vector{Float64}
> end
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
