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Re: Matrix assignment

 



Anders Logg wrote:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 05:29:14AM -0400, Hatef Monajemi wrote:
Hi
Isn't this code supposed to work? It gives me "invalid lvalue in assignment" error while compiling. How should I assign the elements of a Matrix???

//-------------------------------
int main()
{


for(i=0; i<nens; i++)
.
.
.
real* values = new real[nstat];
u1.interpolate(values);

Matrix S(nstat,nens);

for(int j=0;j<nstat;j++)
  {
    S(j,i)=values[j];
  }
}

Sorry, this doesn't work yet.

We can easily fix this in the GenericMatrix interface by adding an
auxiliary class MatrixEntry (which just holds (i, j) and a reference
to the matrix) and have operator() return that, then overload
operator= in MatrixEntry to assign to the matrix.

We had this in DOLFIN 2-3 years back but the linear algebra has gone
through several reimplementations since then...

Until this has been implemented, you can use the setitem() function.


I don't know if we want this because the operation is ill-suited to some linear algebra back-ends and adding it encourages its use. If element-wise access is needed, the uBlas matrix class should be used.

Garth

And please file a bug report for this. Mark it as "enhancement".



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