The PM procedure within IMSL performs formatted output of arrays using the standard linear algebraic convention: “row” refers to the first index of the array and “column” refers to the second. By contrast, other IDL routines (such as PRINT) perform formatted output of arrays using the standard image processing convention: “column” refers to the first index of the array and “row” refers to the second.

The PM procedure is used extensively in the examples in the IMSL routines. For multidimensional arrays, the syntax:

PM, array

is equivalent to:

PRINT, TRANSPOSE(array)

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Examples

Example 1

; Define an array arr
arr = [[1.0, 3.0], [0.0, 4.0], [2.0, 1.0]]
; Print using PM and PRINT
PM, arr & PRINT & PRINT, arr

IDL prints:

1.00000 0.000000 2.00000
3.00000 4.00000 1.00000
1.00000 3.00000
0.000000 4.00000
2.00000 1.00000

Syntax

PM, Array0 [, ... , Array19]

Return Value

None

Arguments

Arrayn

The arrays to be displayed. The PM routine can display up to 20 arrays.

Keywords

None

Version History

6.4

Introduced

See Also

RM