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Sample IDL Procedure
Search HST archive for given RA, Dec and radius. Output requested columns
as comma-separated values.
;********************************************************* ; test_webget.pro ; retrieves specified url using webget function from ; Astron library ; (dum is a dummy parameter) ; ;********************************************************* pro test_webget,dum
; ; search for HST data at given RA, Dec & radius, ; max_records=10, output is comma separated variables, ; & only return requested columns. ; url = "http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/search.php?" url = url + "RA=53.084&DEC=-27.873&radius=1.0&max_records=10&"; url = url + "outputformat=CSV&action=Search"; url = url + "&selectedColumnsCsv=sci_data_set_name,sci_ra,sci_dec,sci_targname";
print,' ' print,"url = "+url print,' '
; ; webget retruends an IDL structure ; with data in a.TEXT ; (assumes Astron library is in IDL search path) ; a = webget(url) ; print,a.HEADER print,a.Text ; return end