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getlabels()

Usage:
getlabels(x [,silent:T,trim:F]) or getlabels(x,dims [,silent:T,trim:F]),
  dims a vector of positive integers



Keywords: general, variables
getlabels(x) returns the coordinate labels assocated with variable x.
When x is a structure or ndims(x) = 1, the result is a CHARACTER vector
of length ncomps(x) or dim(x)[1] or a CHARACTER scalar; otherwise the
result is a structure with ndims(x) components, each of which a
CHARACTER vector of length dim(x)[i] or a CHARACTER scalar.

A scalar is returned for a coordinate label only if all the labels for
that coordinate are identical and either are "" or start with "@", in
which case the first label is returned.  Effectively, non-essential
elements are trimmed from a vector of labels.

getlabels(x, dims), where dims is a vector of positive integers, returns
the labels associated with coordinates dims[1], dims[2], ... of x in the
same form as for getlabels(x).  If length(dims) = 1, the result is a
CHARACTER scalar or vector; otherwise it is a structure of CHARACTER
scalars or vectors.

For both usages, when x has no labels, a warning message is printed and
NULL is returned.  See topic 'NULL'.

getlabels(x [, dims], trim:F) forces the complete labels for each
requested dimension to be returned without trimming of non-essential
elements.

getlabels(x [, dims], silent:T) suppresses the warning message if there
are no labels.

You can determine whether a variable has labels by
  Cmd> if (!isnull(getlabels(x,silent:T))){...do something...}

See also topics 'labels', haslabels(), addmacrofile(), adddatapath().


Gary Oehlert 2003-01-15