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Deleting files from IDL [message #4276]

Thu, 18 May 1995 00:00

cabr69
Messages: 8
Registered: April 1995

Junior Member

Hello all,

I have a file selection widget which gives me an option to pick an old file, pick
no file or create a new one. The name for the new file is entered in an editable
text widget. The problem is that if i make a mistake with the name the file
gets created immediately, and when i enter a new name i end up with two files. Ok i
could create the file after i'm finished rather than straight away but for my
application this is not practicable. I'm running under Unix and if i use

spawn,'rm filename'

it doesn't work since filename in the IDL code is a variable (e.g.state.file).What i
would really like is an IDL command which removes a file but i don't know of any.
I'm thinking of something like

IDL>remove_file,state.file

Does anyone know if such a thing exists?

Thanks in advance,

David

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		Deleting files from IDL By: cabr69 on Thu, 18 May 1995 00:00
		Re: Deleting files from IDL By: David S. Foster/Admin on Mon, 22 May 1995 00:00
		Re: Deleting files from IDL By: knipp on Fri, 19 May 1995 00:00
		Re: deleting files By: R. Bauer on Mon, 30 March 1998 00:00

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