Re: Creating "n" arrays in a loop

Posted by Herbie on Oct 05, 2016; 9:39am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Creating-n-arrays-in-a-loop-tp5017287p5017288.html

Good day Matt,

I'm not perfectly sure but I fear that in the IJ-macro language you
can't use a string

str = "Ch" + i

as a variable name.
Dynamically generated variables may pose problems and arrays of arrays
are impossible as well...

Best

Herbie

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Am 05.10.16 um 11:14 schrieb PEARSON Matthew:

> Hi all,
>
> I must be having a mental block but i can't think how to define a variable number of arrays within a loop.  I'm looking for a way for the loop to be able to create a number of arrays based on a counter variable.  So something like:
>
> channels = could be any number;
> array length = 5; (this is always known)
> for (i=0; i<channels; i++) {
> newArray = Ch + i [array length]
> }
>
> I'd like the newly defined arrays to have the same name "Ch" plus an incremental number which comes from "i" but i don't know how to declare the array name to have a variable included.  Is this possible in the macro language?  I did a google search and came across a thread where someone had suggested importing the java utility "array list" but this looked like quite a complicated solution.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Matt
>
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