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Re: error_state.code [message #43242]

Thu, 24 March 2005 06:40

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Bringfried Stecklum writes:

> back in the times of 5.6 I wrote a program which accepts input from /dev/stdin. I used
> the on_ioerror command to test the end of the input, i.e. a ^D at the prompt yielded the
> !error_state.code of -236 which was used to terminate the input. I noticed that this piece of
> software did not work anymore with IDL 6.1. The reason is that the error_state codes obviously
> differ: EOF is now -265. Can a brave soul point me to the section of the documentation where
> these codes are summarized (as well as the changes). I have not found that yet.

IDL> for j=0,1040 do print, StrTrim(j,2) + ' ', strmessage(j)

RSI points out in the STRMESSAGE help that error codes can change over
time.

Cheers,

David

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