TRIMRANK

Name

trimrank

Purpose (one Line Only)

Remove dimensions of 1 thus returning the lowest possible rank for input

Description

Calling Sequence

retval = trimrank(input)

Inputs

input = variable of any type or rank

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

OVERWRITE - Change is made in place (see reform.pro documentation)

Outputs

return value is the input with all dimensions of no size removed. This
is nearly identical to the IDL routine, reform when called with no
arguments. The one difference this routine offers is it will convert a
one element vector to a scalar.

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

Written by Marc W. Buie, Southwest Research Institute, 2009/11/12