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IDL Manuel

This manuel is very long and is useful for very specific and complicated problems. It can be downloaded from

http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~esirko/idl_html_help/idl_alph_class.html

Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming

IDL Guru who has sample code to meet all kinds of requirements. Visit his website

http://www.dfanning.com/

IDL Quick Referance Chart

Very Useful. It can be downloaded from

http://www-vis.lbl.gov/NERSC/Software/idl/help6.1/quickref.pdf

Programs

Simply copy these .pro files into your IDL path, compile them, and you can use them in your programs

Tex to IDL

TextoIDL is a program that allows Tex markup to be understood by IDL, allowing Tex style mathematical symbols to be used on the axes of graphs etc. It can be downloaded from

http://physweb.mnstate.edu/mcraig/textoidl/

 

Commands

Save/Reload

save, filename='data.dat', var1, var2, /compress
restore, 'data.dat', /verbose