Re: removing degenerate dimensions

Thanks Mary -- that works well.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> There's no automatic way to do this. The simple way, that doesn't retain
> metadata, is
> to simply use onetodond and ndtooned to reshape your array:
>
>  ii = ind(dims.ne.1)    ; Get non-degenerate dimensions.
>  new_dims = dims(ii)    ; New dimension sizes.
>
> ;--Reshape array to new dimension sizes
>  x2 = onedtond(ndtooned(x),new_dims)
>
> If you need to retain metadata, this is a little more complicated.
> See the attached "rm_degen_dims" function with a test
> driver.
>
> --Mary
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Rob Nicholas wrote:
>
>> Is there a *general* way to remove degenerate dimensions from a
>> variable?  In other words, is it possible to remove all degenerate
>> dimensions without having to know which dimensions might be degenerate
>> or even how many dimensions a variable has?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rob
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