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Re: Problems to use variables in a keyword-expression [message #14314]

Wed, 10 February 1999 00:00

rmlongfield
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Registered: August 1998

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In article <79osii$m8j$1@ultra.csi.unimi.it>,
Ospite1 <"ospite1"@a5,itba.mi.cnr.it> wrote: (some words removed)

> The expression has to be something like this :
>
> anzfile = FINDFILE [ string(num*),format='(i12)' , count=anz ]
>
> Unfortunalely this is command doesn't work.
>
> Please help me !
>
> Ruth
>

Hi Ruth,
It looks like you have a simple typing mistake. The star in string(num*)
should not be there. I think that STRING is treating the
star as a character and not as a wildcard. Try

anzfile = FINDFILE(string(num)+'*',count=anz)

As an example, I have some program code which looks like this:

; Define prefixes and suffixes of desired data files
yydddhhmm = '962320734'
star = '*' ; wildcard
data_end = '.pif.Z'

filename_array=FINDFILE(yydddhhmm+star+data_end,COUNT=number _of_files);

Hope this helps.
Rose

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