DELOBJ-Delete a data object or a file

Usage:

delobj object

Description:

This routine deletes an HDS object (structure or primitive, scalar or array) in an HDS file.

Parameters:

OBJECT

The object to be deleted. Specify beginning with directory and file name in the syntax of the operating system, followed by the dot-separated structure hierarchy. Elements of structure arrays are specified in ordinary brackets (). An array element cannot be deleted.

Examples:

 1.  delobj file.axis(2).units
    The file in question is in the current working directory and
    has the standard extension ".sdf". The deleted structure is the
    UNITS string in the 2nd element of the structure array AXIS.
    Note that it would be impossible to delete AXIS(2), but one
    could delete AXIS as a whole.

 2.  delobj @"/home/resun02/myname/data/file.dst".z.label
    Here the file is specified with its complete Unix directory and
    with its non-standard extension ".dst". The deleted structure
    is the LABEL within the Z structure.

See also:

FIGARO: CREOBJ, COPOBJ, RENOBJ, SETOBJ.
KAPPA: ERASE.

Authors:

KS: Keith Shortridge (AAO)

HME: Horst Meyerdierks (UoE, Starlink)