del_card

This routine removes one or several keywords from a FITS header.

Location in HEALPix directory tree: src/f90/mod/head_fits.F90 

FORMAT

call del_card( header, kwds )

ARGUMENTS

name & dimensionality	kind	in/out	description
header(LEN=80)(1:nlheader)	CHR	INOUT	The header to remove the keyword(s) from. The routines finds out the header size.
kwds(LEN=20)(1:nkws)	CHR	IN	list of FITS keywords to remove. The routine accepts either a vector a keywords or a single one in a scalar variable
kwds(LEN=20)	CHR	IN	the one FITS keyword to remove.

EXAMPLE # 1:

call del_card(header,(/ 'NSIDE ','COORD ','ORDERING' /) )

Removes the keywords `NSIDE', 'COORD' and 'ORDERING' from Header

EXAMPLE # 2:

call del_card(header, 'ORDERING' )

Removes the keyword 'ORDERING' from Header

MODULES & ROUTINES

This section lists the modules and routines used by del_card.

write_hl

more general routine for adding a keyword to a header.

cfitsio

library for FITS file handling.

RELATED ROUTINES

This section lists the routines related to del_card

add_card

general purpose routine to write any keywords into a FITS file header

get_card

general purpose routine to read any keywords from a header in a FITS file.

read_par, number_of_alms

routines to read specific keywords from a header in a FITS file.

getsize_fits

function returning the size of the data set in a fits file and reading some other useful FITS keywords

merge_headers

routine to merge two FITS headers