Re: Using MINLOC(array)

Clive Page <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

scalar = firstarray(MINLOC(secondarray))
....
This compiled and ran successfully. I then thought that I had made a
mistake by failing to use DIM=1, without which MINLOC returns a vector
(of length one). Then I thought about it more carefully and realised
that it was ok, as I was accessing firstarray with a vector subscript
(of length one) which is valid.

Hmm. That part is valid, but then firstarray(vector_subscript) should
likewise be an array, so you have

scalar = array

which isn't ok. Unless I've got something confused, which could happen.
But I'm guessing that maybe you had a compiler than let you get by with
the nonstandard scalar=array.

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