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Re: Variables in SAVE files [message #29238] Fri, 08 February 2002 11:05
Craig Markwardt is currently offline  Craig Markwardt
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john.copley@nist.gov (John Copley) writes:

> If I have an IDL save file I can use the VERBOSE option to find out
> the names of the variables stored in the file, but is there a way to
> capture this information into a string or string array? In other
> words, can the standard output be redirected to a file? If so that
> would do it, I think.

A good way to do this is with my CMSAVE library. With CMSAVEDIR, you
can extract the names and types of all the variables in a save file
[among other things]. There is an option to do this quietly, so
nothing is printed to the screen.

Craig

http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/idl.html (under SAVE files)

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