Re: Reference Last Element of Array

Actually, it'd be quite nice for such a trick to be added. Matlab
added the keyword 'end' a few versions ago, and it's jolly useful.

Of course, NCL may be written in such a way that it would be a
nightmare to add..

Cheers

Harry

On 1 Jul 2009, at 15:31, Dennis Shea wrote:

> To my knowledge, there is no such 'trick' for subscripting.
>
> You must use 'N-1'
>
> Lunde, Bruce N CIV NAVOCEANO, NP1 wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Just wanted to confirm that to reference
>> the last element of an array, there is
>> no simple trick like using "-1" for the
>> indices (e.g. last_element = myarray(-1)).
>>
>> You must always use dimsizes(myarray) and
>> pick out the appropriate element of that
>> to find the last element.
>>
>> Thanks, Bruce
>>
>>
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Ian "Harry" Harris
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School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
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