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Re: Large data sets

Neil Talsania wrote:

>   I am new to IDL, and everything that I have done so far works great on
> small data sets. But, I dont know how to use it for a large (>2 gig)
> dataset, as I obviously just cant load that into an array. The data is on
> disk and can either be tiled so that it is stored in 1024x1024 segments, or
> it is stripped which is one complete row at a time. Even a complete row is
> large (>80000 samples).
> 
> Any thoughts as to how I would be able to use this data?

Have a  look at the ASSOC() function.

        Alex
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